Data Issues Remain as Trump Renews Push for Health Care Price Transparency
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Mar 07, 2025
In late February, President Donald Trump signed an executive order signaling his desire to build upon the health care price transparency regulations issued during his first administration. Those rules required hospitals and health insurers to publish lists of negotiated prices for services, including in- and out-of-network rates. But an expert tells AIS Health that issues persist with the massive amount of complex data being submitted by health care organizations — and with ensuring health plan compliance.
The executive order directs HHS and the Labor and Treasury departments, in the next 90 days, to “take all necessary and appropriate action to rapidly implement and enforce” the price transparency rules targeting hospitals and insurers issued in Trump’s first term. This includes requiring disclosure of actual prices instead of estimates, issuing guidance to ensure standardization and easy price comparisons, and issuing guidance to update enforcement policies, according to the order.
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