The Evolution and Impact of Hospital Price Transparency in North Carolina.

Health care costs are on the rise and causing financial burden for many patients. Price transparency has been proposed as a tool to control health care costs. New federal legislation requires all hospitals to publish their chargemasters, or price lists, on their websites as of January 1, 2019.

Lessons learned from applying adaptation pathways in flood risk management and challenges for the further development of this approach.

Worldwide, an increase in flood damage is observed. Governments are looking for effective ways to protect lives, buildings, and infrastructure. At the same time, a large investment gap seems to exist-a big difference between what should necessarily be done to curb the increase in damage and what is actually being done.