August 27, 2019, Vol 322, No. 8, Pages 703-792

This Viewpoint discusses the how changing opt-in to opt-out policies for organ donors may impede US donation and recommends to increase efforts in recruiting individuals to become donors to meet the need of helping people who need transplants.

This Viewpoint argues for integration of price information in electronic health records (EHRs) as a mechanism to increase price transparency and promote cost-conscious, patient-centered, shared decision making at the point of care.

This Viewpoint reviews the discrepancy in prices paid for hospital services by commercial insurers vs Medicare and Medicaid, and calls for greater hospital accountability, cost transparency, and data to guide pricing so that the cost of services are benchmarked to the value they offer patients and paying employers rather than the negotiating leverage of health care organizations.

This Viewpoint argues that the language distinguishing evidence-based from consensus-based clinical guidelines is misleading because both require consensus, and argues that it is more accurate to distinguish evidence-based guidelines, which require recommendations consistent with underlying evidence, from non–evidence-based guidelines, which do not.