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HUGE! President Trump signed an Executive Order to require an end to secret prices in health care. The order directs HHS to issue a regulation requiring prices for hospitals and for DOL-HHS-Treasury to do a tri-department proposal for insurance companies to disclose prices. Quick turnaround on deadlines. Stay tuned!  Read More

Katy Talento in The Hill takes on arguments often made against ending secret prices in health care, in particular the FTC and CBO claims that transparent prices will cause collusion among sellers of care.  Read the piece  

President Trump tackles the problem of surprise bills and secret gouging at a roundtable in the Roosevelt Room with patients, doctors and Secretary of HHS Alex Azar and Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta.  Watch the Roundtable  

The Allegheny County (Pittsburgh) school district was able to fix health care and use the savings to restore funding to their long-deprived schools. Employers – take note of how they did it. Health Rosetta principles of high performing networks combined with zero/low cost-sharing for high value care.  Read More