Grantee Name
Public Agenda
Funding Area
Empowering Health Care Consumers
Publication Date
May 2018
Grant Amount
$140,141
Grant Date:
February 2016 – June 2017
As health care costs continue to grow, patients are increasingly facing higher premiums, deductibles, and copayments—leading to more out-of-pocket costs for their health care.
Growing patient cost burdens have increased the interest in price transparency and access to price information for health care services. To assess how people are seeking and using available price information in health care decisions, Public Agenda conducted a national survey for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) on this topic, publishing the results in March 2015. RWJF subsequently funded Public Agenda to repeat the national survey in 2016, with NYHealth awarding Public Agenda a paired grant to conduct a robust New York State companion survey in conjunction with the national project.
Under this grant, Public Agenda enhanced the national survey with new questions and conducted a New York-specific survey. By determining the extent to which New Yorkers are seeking and using price information, the findings can help stakeholders understand the factors that may drive price transparency and the barriers to uptake, as well as inform future developments in price transparency in New York State.