Though some major medical societies applauded President Donald J. Trump’s executive order on June 24 directing HHS to require hospitals upfront disclosure of prices, it faces difficulty coming to fruition, medical, legal and economic experts told Healio Primary Care.
Background
The executive order states that HHS issue a rule within 60 days that requires hospitals to publicly reveal the cost patients will pay for services in an “easy-to-understand, consumer-friendly, and machine-readable format using consensus-based data standards that will meaningfully inform patients’
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