"Two large employers represented in multiple market areas across the United States offered an online health care price transparency tool to their employees.... The tool provided users information about what they would pay out of pocket for services from different physicians, hospitals, or other clinical sites.... [B]eing offered the tool was associated with a mean $59 increase in outpatient spending.... Being offered the price transparency tool was associated with a mean $18 increase in out-of-pocket spending ... In the first 12 months, 10% of employees who were offered the tool used it at least once."  MORE >>