Transparency Advocates Want To Undo Secret Hospital-Insurer Pricing Contracts
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Doing away with state insurance laws that protect the privacy of proprietary pricing arrangements between insurers and providers, in a bid to lower procedure prices overall, was a focus of transparency advocates at a recent summit in Washington, D.C.
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