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It has been four months since WLRN launched Pricecheck, an online guide to bring clarity to health care costs in Florida. Along with our partners WUSF in…

Sometime before the end of this year, the state of Florida will have a new website with health care prices for patients. It's the result of a 2016 law and…

06/07/16 - Tuesday’s Topical Currents looks at WLRN’s PriceCheck project . . . a community-created guide to health care costs.Patients can go to the WLRN…

Consumers skeptical about the real cost of health care will soon have a resource where they can ask and share with their neighbors the price of common…

If you're like a lot of Floridians and get your health insurance through an employer, some of your health care decisions may be made for you before you…

Jane Morse needed to fill a prescription that was going to cost her about $300. She's on Medicare but doesn't have a prescription drug plan so she's...

Health News Florida's database of costs for common health care procedures is growing. PriceCheck now contains thousands of entries for health care...

Transparency is the new buzzword in health care with consumer demand fueling changes to state laws and giving birth to websites that publish prices for...

Ask what something costs in medical care and you could easily come back with a half dozen different answers. Health care costs are complex and often…

During a conversation about health care recently with WMFE, the chief executives of two major hospitals in Central Florida said making prices more...

Look closely at a bill from your health care provider, and there's likely a sigh of relief your insurance company negotiated a better rate than the...

Health-care prices are complex and in many ways secret—which can affect how much you end up paying for your health care.But not everyone agrees on what…

Health care prices are notoriously difficult to come by ahead of a procedure, but Jackson Health System in South Florida is experimenting with a new…

More Floridians get their health insurance through their jobs than from any other source—about 42 percent of us, according to the Kaiser Family…

Health News Florida has been reporting that Florida’s health insurance companies are asking for double-digit rate increases.A new analysis from the…

For the past year, WUSF has invited you to share the cost of your health care -- not your insurance premiums, but the cost of the care itself. Our...

Cuba has changed its policy and will allow anyone born there to return to the island on a cruise ship or merchant vessel. Carnival had threatened to…

Prices for common medical procedures vary widely, and it can be really hard to find out the true cost up front. This crowdsourcing project aims to help draw back the curtain on colonoscopy costs.