An article published in the New York Times on December 24^th featured two state government sponsored websites operational in New Hampshire and Maine that make comparative cost data by procedure available to health care consumers. These two websites are the only such sites in the nation that expose actual payments made by insurers, which means that an […]

Only a few vacationers and year-round residents may have seen the lead story in the Martha’s Vineyard Gazette on Friday. The headline read “Island Hospital Fees are High”, and the story dealt with the cost of outpatient procedures at the hospital, which, according to the Gazette, are “many times higher than other area hospitals”.

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There was a front page story in the Boston Globe the other day with the following headline:  “Errors Test Openness At Beth Israel Deaconess.”  The story was about the decision made some time ago by BIDMC CEO Paul Levy to be totally transparent with his own team - and with the public at large - […]