Category: Cost Transparency

Pharmacies Face Extra Audit Burdens That Threaten Their Existence

Colorado, Cost Transparency, drug costs, Health Care Costs, Pharmaceuticals, States, The Last Drugstore / August 6, 2021 August 6, 2021

The clock was about to strike midnight, and Scott Newman was desperately feeding pages into a scanner, trying to prevent thousands of dollars in prescription payments from turning into a pumpkin. As the owner of Newman Family Pharmacy, an independent drugstore in Chesapeake, Virginia, he was responding to an audit ordered by a pharmacy benefit …

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Journalists Tackle Delta Variant, Hospital Prices and Public Health Spending

California, Cost Transparency, COVID-19, Health Care Costs, hospitals, public health, Surprise Bills / July 10, 2021 July 10, 2021

Midwest correspondent Lauren Weber discussed the covid-19 delta variant on NPR’s “The 1A” on July 2. Click here to hear Weber on NPR Senior correspondent Julie Appleby discussed hospital price transparency on WGN’s “NewsNation Now” on July 2. Click here to watch Appleby on WGN Read Appleby’s “Hospital Prices Must Now Be Transparent. For Many …

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Hospital Prices Must Now Be Transparent. For Many Consumers, They’re Still Anyone’s Guess.

Cost and Quality, Cost Transparency, Health Care Costs, hospitals, Insurance, Medicaid, Medicare, Trump Administration / July 2, 2021 July 2, 2021

A colonoscopy might cost you or your insurer a few hundred dollars — or several thousand, depending on which hospital or insurer you use. Long hidden, such price variations are supposed to be available in stark black and white under a Trump administration price transparency rule that took effect at the start of this year. …

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Journalists Track Biden’s First 100 Days

Biden Administration, California, Cost Transparency, COVID-19, hospitals, Pharmaceuticals, public health / May 1, 2021 May 1, 2021

Chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner discussed Biden’s first 100 days on WAMU/NPR’s “1A” on Wednesday. She also joined Wisconsin Public Radio’s “Central Time” to talk about why hospitals aren’t cooperating with price transparency requirements. Click here to hear Rovner on WAMU/NPR Read Rovner’s “The Great Undoing: Which of Trump’s Policies Will Biden Reverse?” Click here …

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The Great Undoing: Which of Trump’s Policies Will Biden Reverse?

Abortion, Contraception, Cost Transparency, Courts, drug costs, Georgia, Health Care Costs, Health Industry, HHS, hospitals, Immigrants, Insurance, Insurers, Medicaid, Multimedia, NIH, Obamacare Plans, Open Enrollment, Pharmaceuticals, Premiums, Prescription Drugs, public health, States, Tennessee, The Health Law, womens health / March 25, 2021 March 25, 2021

KHN has put together an interactive tool of significant health policies implemented by the Trump administration using its own authority — executive orders, agency guidance or formal regulations — and is tracking Biden administration and court actions. We will update this chart as actions are taken. Topics: Affordable Care Act | HHS Operations | Immigration …

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Hospital Prices Just Got a Lot More Transparent. What Does This Mean for You?

Cost Transparency, hospitals, Insurance, Trump Administration / January 5, 2021 January 5, 2021

Hospitals face the new year with new requirements to post price information they have long sought to obscure: the actual prices negotiated with insurers and the discounts they offer their cash-paying customers. The move is part of a larger push by the Trump administration to use price transparency to curtail prices and create better-informed consumers. …

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Surprise Federal Drug Rule Directs Insurers to Reveal What They Pay for Prescription Drugs

Cost Transparency, drug costs, Health Care Costs, Insurance, Insurers, Out-of-Pocket Costs, Pharmaceuticals, Prescription Drugs, Trump Administration / November 19, 2020 November 19, 2020

Health insurance companies will have to give their customers estimated out-of-pocket costs for prescription drugs and disclose to the public the negotiated prices they pay for drugs, under an unexpected new Trump administration rule. The administration said those requirements, part of a broader rule issued Oct. 29 forcing health plans to disclose costs and payments …

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