[showerst]

Medicare/caid prices are standardized and public. They also release data on what specific hospitals bill for the most common procedures.

http://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Stat...

Dealing with Medicare/caid involves lots of additional overhead and billing oversight, but that graf is a political shot, not a fact related to transparent pricing.

[fnordfnordfnord]

Isn't this a recent development, like two months ago?

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/08/business/hospital-billing-...

[showerst]

The specific provider data is recent, but the 'here's what we'll reimburse for what procedures' data has always been public, as far as I know.

I think this is a link to it, but I'm not 100% sure - http://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Medicare-Fee-for-Service-Payment...