Experts: Price Disclosure Not Enough without Quality Data

By David Dankwa, Senior ReporterExperts in occupational medicine are lending their voice to the debate about medical-pricing transparency, which reached a crescendo this summer when an Oklahoma surgical center began posting the costs of its procedures online.The nontraditional approach taken by the Surgery Center of Oklahoma, owned by its roughly 40 surgeons and anesthesiologists, drew national interest and sparked a bidding war as several other medical facilities in Oklahoma posted their prices, according to news reports. The Oklahoma surgery center's actions came amidst other efforts to ...