The lack of cost transparency has long been an issue in health care, but it has been exacerbated in recent years by an increase in "narrow network" health plans. (Image: Shutterstock)
Medical providers aren't doing nearly enough to help patients prepare for the cost of their treatments. In fact, a new survey suggests that providers rarely provide information about costs to patients, which helps explain the dramatic uptick in surprise bills over the last few years.
In a survey of 801 health insurance consumers, all of whom have purchased ACA-compliant plans through eHealth, 30 percent reported "never" getting an out-of-pocket estimate for their out-of-pocket costs from medical providers while 28 percent said they "rarely" received such information.
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