Hospitals must make prices public starting Jan. 1

Georgia and more than a dozen other states argued they were harmed by the Affordable Care Act because it led to increased costs, including to their state-run Medicaid programs.

Starting Jan. 1, a new federal rule will require the nation’s hospitals to post all their full-price charges on their websites. The idea is to introduce transparency into the world of hospital charges. But these newly published price lists may end up leaving consumers even more confused than ever before.

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