Opinion
What North Carolina can learn from Tennessee about healthcare
These reforms are not simply about insurance or pharmacy regulations. They are about whether patients retaining meaningful choices in their care.
Opinion
Price transparency policy will protect patients like me
Price transparency can revolutionize American health care into a functional, pro-consumer marketplace that resembles the rest of the economy.
Opinion
North Carolina’s opportunity to ban health industry gag clauses and unleash price transparency
This piece was co-written with Cynthia Fisher. [Editor’s note: This opinion piece was originally published at Forbes.com and is reprinted with permission] Jason Dean from Tennessee needed stitches on his knee after a minor accident last year. He went to a local hospital that told him insurance would cover the procedure. Weeks later, he received a $6,500...
News
Folwell calls out hospitals for ignoring price transparency law
Editor’s note: The number of hospitals included in the Patient Rights Advocate study has been changed, based on updated information from the Office of the State Treasurer. State Treasurer Dale Folwell is raising concerns about hospitals’ compliance with federal price transparency laws. Folwell highlights new research that “directly counters” competing claims about price transparency from...
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Treasurer Folwell says hospitals not so transparent on prices, despite federal rules
N.C. Treasurer Dale Folwell says N.C. hospitals aren’t being transparent on their pricing, despite federal rules requiring them to do so. In 2019, President Trump signed an executive order requiring hospitals to make public the prices they charge for standard procedures. The federal government soon followed through with rules mandating that every hospital in the...
Opinion
A health care price transparency win for the Trump administration
America’s convoluted, public-private health care system is filled with bad policies and inefficiencies. Government intrusion into the market has rendered it unusable and impenetrable for many. A lack of price transparency is one of the most glaring issues in America’s health care system. It’s hard to imagine any other sector of the economy operating as...
