It would provide some incentive to equalize across hospitals and rein in any sort of egregious outliers. Right now no one has any idea what is an outlier. Ther

It would provide some incentive to equalize across hospitals and rein in any sort of egregious outliers. Right now no one has any idea what is an outlier. There was already list pricing published and some hospitals charge wildly different prices for the same tests, never mind with different insurers. It wouldn’t solve everything but the base of knowledge we have is effectively zero, so something would be better than nothing. Consumers in the US are also perfectly capable of shopping around for non-urgent care. They already do this for elective dentistry, for example.