Kaiser Health News
Massachusetts is launching a sweeping plan to hold down health care costs. A new law is partly designed to get patients to help drive down prices by shopping for medical care.
WBUR.org Reporter, Martha Bebinger, recounts her story of price shopping (or the difficulty of doing so) for an MRI where she was given information ranging from none at all to $8,000. She also provides some helpful tips on being a price conscious health consumer.
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