An Act empowering patients and entrepreneurs with real transparency on cost

This bill amends Massachusetts law to require the state's health data center to publish detailed payment and usage information for hospitals, doctors, and drug suppliers. Specifically, it mandates the release of data on the 100 most common inpatient stays, outpatient procedures, and prescribed drugs, along with the 10 most expensive categories in each group. The law requires this information to include both submitted charges and allowed amounts, allowing comparisons by provider, specialty, and location, while excluding data from providers with fewer than five instances of a specific service. The bill specifies that the data must be made available annually on the public website in a raw, usable format, though it does not require the state to create a new consumer tool to sort the information.