All but five states received a failing grade of F (on a scale from A to F), according to the 2014 Report Card on State Price Transparency Laws (PDF), released March 25. No state earned an A grade, and there were only two Bs and three Cs, according to the report from the Catalyst for Payment Reform (CPR) and the Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute (HCI3). With a few exceptions, state efforts to collect and publish price information have failed, the report said. In addition, many of the transparency tools that states make available to consumers are not user-friendly.
