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Podcast: Relentless Health Value
Episode: EP390: What Legislators Need to Know About Hospital Prices, With Gloria Sachdev, PharmD, and Chris Skisak, PhD
Description: If you go to the Sage Transparency dashboard Web site, you get a really graphical representation of the prices that any given hospital actually needs to charge so that they break even. You can see precisely which hospitals are operating on thin margins and which ones are not. You might be thinking, "Okay, so ... what's the big deal about this? Why is the Sage Transparency information so meaningful? Aren't hospitals (most of them) providing their financial statements already?" Well, let's discuss. First of all, we have the main hospital lobbying organization coming out with press...