NCHA represents more than 130 individual and multi-hospital healthcare systems — teaching, rural, small community, suburban, specialty, and continuing care facilities — providing acute care, rehabilitative, behavioral, psychiatric and veterans’ services. Our members provide a broad range of services — not just within their walls, but across the continuum and throughout their communities.
Price transparency in Healthcare
Price transparency is one of the most confusing topics in today’s healthcare world. Healthcare consumers are becoming more engaged and asking for information about pricing and out- of-pocket costs for healthcare services. However, providers can’t always offer a simple, standard price for any given healthcare service. NCHA has created a FAQ to help provide answers to the most common questions regarding price transparency, definitions and terminology used, and reasons behind price differences. Frequently Asked Questions Consumers Have About Price Transparency
Quick Facts
- Health systems and hospitals directly and indirectly support more than 500,000 jobs across our state, 8% of total employment. They provide 268,000 direct jobs and support an additional 247,000 jobs in other industry sectors.
- Health systems and hospitals supporting 1 in 8 North Carolina jobs.
- Health systems are among the top 10 employers in at least 92 of North Carolina’s 100 counties.
- Health system and hospital operations generated $40 billion in GDP impacts in 2020. This is roughly 6% of the total state GDP.
- Health systems and hospitals provided $5.79 billion in community benefits, which included charity care, losses from Medicare and Medicaid, graduate medical education, donations, and services (NCHA, 2021).
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