Federal Officials Announce Steps To Strengthen Health Care Price Transparency
In May, the Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and the Treasury announced several acti...
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Considerations for federal agencies tasked with improving health plan price transparency data
While the health plan price transparency data available under current guidance and enforcement have ...
New Executive Order Outlines Next Steps For Health Care Price Transparency
In February, the Trump administration issued an executive order outlining steps for federal agencies...
State Efforts To Improve Price Transparency
Federal regulations require hospitals and insurers to publish negotiated prices. States are also pla...
Policy Experts Discuss Strategies to Keep Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Afloat
On October 3, CHIR held the first in a series of in-person policy briefings on the future of employe...
New Georgetown Report and Issue Brief on Outpatient Facility Fee Billing and State Policy Responses
Consumers are increasingly being exposed to a new expense when they seek outpatient medical care: ho...
Can Employer-Sponsored Insurance Be Saved? A Review of Policy Options: Price Transparency
The rising costs of employer-sponsored insurance are placing financial pressure on employers and wor...
May Research Roundup: What We’re Reading
April showers bring May flowers, and May was abloom with health policy research. Last month, we read...
The GOP’s Plans for Health Care if they Take Control of Congress: A Mixed Bag for Consumers
The midterm elections are upon us, and most voters view health care as a “very important” issue....
Hospital And Insurer Price Transparency Rules Now In Effect But Compliance Is Still Far Away
Hospitals and health insurers are now required to publicly post their prices for health care service...
State Health Care Purchasers Can Push Hospitals To Comply With Federal Transparency Requirements
Federal law now requires hospitals to publish the prices they negotiate with private insurers, yet m...
Building a Better Transparency Mousetrap: Recommendations to Optimize Hospital and Health Plan Price Disclosures
Amidst high and rising health care costs, recent federal regulations require hospitals and health p...
September Research Roundup: What We’re Reading
This September, CHIR’s Nia Gooding reviewed new studies on state health system performance, differ...
September Research Round Up: What We’re Reading
For the September Research Round Up, CHIR's Olivia Hoppe dives into studies on trends in employer he...