Rankings tout the best hospitals to receive cancer care or treatment of a heart attack. They recommend where to go for a hip or a knee replacement. But tools are scarce for patients who want to choose a hospital based on costs.
A federal rule that went into effect Jan. 1 was intended to provide just that. Enacted by the Trump administration, it requires hospitals to disclose their cash prices, or the costs of procedures without health insurance, and the rates they negotiate with insurance companies for all their services.
In New York City the result has been haphazard at best and defiantly noncompliant at worst. For facilities
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