People will spend hours scouring Amazon AMZN, +0.77%, Walmart WMT, +1.25% and Target TGT, +1.64% for bargains, and aggressively negotiate with car dealers and real-estate agents — yet they literally drive past potential savings when choosing health-care services. Patients who needed MRIs and had access to a price-shopping tool still …
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Hi there, MarketWatchers. Don’t miss these top stories: Personal Finance Americans scroll Amazon and Walmart for bargains — yet choose pricey healthcare services and throw away hundreds of dollars New hospital-price transparency rules took effect earlier this year, but patient advocates say those rules only do so much. ‘We need …
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COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus that was first identified late last year in Wuhan, China, has been a dominant theme in the earnings releases and conference calls of S&P 500 companies as investors press for answers on how it will impact their financials. A FactSet search of …
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