In Health Affairs, researcher David Muhlestein highlights the challenges of analyzing payer price data and provides recommendations to unlock this data’s full potential. This research comes on the heels of a Presidential executive order directing the Secretaries of Treasury, Labor, and Health and Human Services to rapidly issue updated regulatory guidance to strengthen price transparency.
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