Local hospitals posting procedure prices online to comply with new law

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Under a new federal law, all hospitals are required to post a list of their procedure prices online by Jan. 1, in an effort to increase cost transparency for patients. But local hospital officials caution that while the intentions of the new law are good, price lists can be misleading because patients rarely pay those

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