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.
Health Affairs Forefront
Unlocking Healthcare’s Black Box: Why Trump’s New Transparency Order Matters for Employers and Consumers
The administration’s executive order is an opportunity to realize transparency’s potential in more functional and efficient healthcare markets.
Why Hospital Price Transparency Is Essential to Improving Employee Benefits
Mairin Mancino discusses how better pricing data can improve employer benefits while lowering costs and enhancing care.
Helping Employers and Consumers Evaluate the Cost and Quality of Healthcare Services
The Center offers recommendations to improve hospital price transparency, strengthen employer access to claims data, and leverage transparency for competition, choice, and efficiency.