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Hospital Price Transparency Rules are Inadequate to Inform Patients Needing Major Gastrointestinal Cancer Operations

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Dr. Herb is partially supported by a National Research Service Award Pre-Doctoral/Post-Doctoral Traineeship from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality sponsored by the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Grant No. 5T32 HS000032. Dr. Williams is supported by the NIH Fogarty International Center Grant #D43TW009340.

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  1. Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

    Joshua Herb MD, MSCR, Brittney Williams MD, MPH & Karyn Stitzenberg MD, MPH

  2. Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

    Joshua Herb MD, MSCR

  3. Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

    Karyn Stitzenberg MD, MPH

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Herb, J., Williams, B. & Stitzenberg, K. Hospital Price Transparency Rules are Inadequate to Inform Patients Needing Major Gastrointestinal Cancer Operations. Ann Surg Oncol 29, 45–46 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1245/s10434-021-10244-2

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