President Donald Trump’s latest executive order focuses on enhancing price transparency in healthcare. This directive is aimed at ensuring that healthcare providers disclose the “actual prices” of services and items, rather than estimates, by enforcing a 2019 order he signed during his first term,
A recent report from PatientRightsAdvocate.org, a non-profit organization, revealed that only 21.1% of hospitals fully complied with the transparency mandate from Trump’s 2019 executive order. In his new order, Trump pointed out that hospitals and health plans had not been properly held accountable for incomplete or missing pricing data. He also criticized the Biden Administration for…
