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Role of Price Transparency During Path Contract Talks
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXII, No. 5 – March 31, 2025 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Pathology groups have a much better opportunity to turn the tables on payers and other third parties during contract negotiations if they come armed with the data and other information recommended by two well-respected pathology experts…
Trump Signs Executive Order on Price Transparency
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXII, No. 5 – March 31, 2025 Issue
ON FEBRUARY 25, PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP SIGNED AN EXECUTIVE ORDER targeted at driving price transparency requirements for hospitals and insurers. The order aims to strictly enforce a previous rule, signed during his first term, intended to provide patients with cl…
Proposed Clinical Laboratory Price Transparency Bill
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXII, No. 3 – February 17, 2025 Issue
IN DECEMBER, THE CLINICAL LABORATORY PRICE TRANSPARENCY ACT OF 2023 was referred to the U.S. House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health for final approval. The bill requires labs to disclose information regarding pricing before administering services. The goal is to ensure patients better understand…
Provider Price Transparency Trend Has New Twist
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXX, No. 12 – August 21, 2023 Issue
IT’S NOT JUST PATIENTS WHO ARE TYPICALLY UNABLE TO SEE PRICES FOR THEIR MEDICAL CARE IN ADVANCE OF SERVICE. Guess who else is unhappy that they cannot access the prices charged by hospitals, physicians, and other pro…
Big Employers Sue Payers over Price Transparency
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXX, No. 12 – August 21, 2023 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Feeling they’ve been denied access by insurance companies to price data about medical claim payments, self-funded employer plans and unions are taking their health insurance companies…
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