Healthcare Prices Aren’t Market-Driven.

The healthcare market doesn’t work like every other free market. Hospitals raise their prices at will, without much consideration of their competition. Although those prices don’t generally matter because payments are based on the type of insurance coverage a patient has, they do matter when very sick patients exceed insurance thresholds. ACAP Health CEO, Wally Gomaa shared, “This is the No. 1 cause of hospital price inflation today”. Click to view Jim Lander’s article in the Dallas Morning News.