Price shopping cost of MRI at MA hospitals? Report finds persistence needed

"On just about every one of these hospital websites, it says 'We accept this credit card, here is how to get to our billing department,' and while I am not critical of this, there also needs to be price information that people need," said Barbara Anthony, author of the Boston-based Pioneer Institute's just released policy brief, "Mass Hospitals Weak on Price Transparency." The price information Anthony refers to is the cost of a medical service or procedure. This means what the consumer's insurer has agreed to pay the provider.