Hospital Price Transparency Legislation Will Burden Poor and Rural Patients   

By DAVID INTROCASO Last month the House Energy and Commerce and the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) committees passed three hospital price transparency (price T) bills by a combined vote 90-22. Afterward, HELP Chair, Dr. Bill Cassidy, stated he was ‘optimistic” and “confident” price T legislation would be enacted by the Congress this session. Over the past decade federal policymakers have concluded price T will constraint or moderate hospital prices. In theory, the logic is straight-forward. By requiring hospitals to publish machine-readable files and consumer-fr...

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