The Healthcare Price Transparency Illusion: Does anyone know what laboratory tests cost?

In an important analysis of the usefulness and total estimated cost of a screening panel of laboratory tests for patients newly diagnosed with celiac disease, Farmer et al proposed in their recently published article a truncated protocol to alleviate the costs for patients.1 Inadvertently, the authors demonstrate a problem with hospital price transparency in the United States.
Source: The Journal of Pediatrics - Category: Pediatrics Authors: Tags: Letters to the Editor Source Type: research