Plus: Q&A: SUNY Downstate's CEO on reinventing hospital care post-pandemic Union groups teaming up to consolidate hospital-price bargaining power NYP to spend $46M to relocate Columbia's sterile processing unit
A survey of 1,000 hospitals nationwide found that only about 14% were in full compliance with price transparency regulations and none of the 12 hospitals analyzed in New York City and Long Island were among them.
Per capita spending on hospital care in New York rose by about 30% in just four years. The costs can get handed down to the unions' members, many of whom work low-income jobs.