Competition and Transparency
Transparency is integral both to reduce health care costs and improve the quality of care. Specific changes in statute, and to the current regulatory regime, could significantly strengthen transparency in the health care system, thus giving rise to better care for patients, more competition, greater value, and improved quality and safety. Experience has shown that competition and information are critical to a functioning marketplace for any product, and health care is no exception. Employers are major innovators in health care, and transparency will accelerate our member companies’ ability to improve benefits and coverage, increase affordability for patients, and drive efficiency, quality, and value in the system.
- ERIC One-Pager: Full Transparency is Needed to Help Lower Health Care Costs
- ERIC One-Pager: Congress Must End Arbitrary Price Increases and Unfair Contracting Practices
- ERIC Statement to House Energy and Commerce Committee Hearing on Health Care Affordability
- ERIC Response to House Budget Health Task Force
- ERIC Affordability RFI Response
- Consumers F1rst Statement to the Senate Finance Committee on Consolidation
- Consumers F1rst Statement to House Energy and Commerce Committee on Transparency and Competition
- Health Pricing Stakeholder Letter
Addressing Unfair Business Practices and Anticompetitive Behavior
- Fairness in Contracting
Transparency of Health Prices and Data
- Codification of Transparency in Coverage and Hospital Transparency rules
- Lower Costs, More Transparency Act
- Health Care PRICE Transparency Act 2.0
- Federal Claims Data Repository
Payment Reforms
- Site Neutral Payments
- Site Neutral in LCMTA
Media Flags
- Tackling Health Care Consolidation: Congress Can Curb Costs, op-ed by ERIC President & CEO James Gelfand, Real Clear Health – 12/19/24
- Employers lobby to keep health care prices transparent in hopes of containing costs, NPR – 12/19/24
- Employers and benefits brokers unite to defend group health tax exclusion, Benefits Pro – 11/17/24
- Hospital groups blast senators’ site-neutral Medicare payment reform plan, Fierce Healthcare – 11/5/24
- Employers Urge Stronger Health Transparency as ERISA Turns 50, Bloomberg Law – 8/30/24
- Health and Employer Groups Push for Improved Health Pricing Transparency, PlanSponsor – 6/10/24
- Legislation to Improve Health Billing Transparency Endorsed by ERISA Industry Committee, planadviser – 6/10/24
- Fight Brewing Over Health Benefits Preemption Gets House Hearing, Bloomberg News – 4/15/24
- Insurers Reap Hidden Fees by Slashing Payments. You May Get the Bill, New York Times – 4/7/24
- Updates to ERISA? Payers, hospitals share diverging recommendations with Congress, Fierce Healthcare – 3/19/24
- 5 Things To Know About Pharmacy Benefit Managers, Center for American Progress – 3/14/24