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[Webinar] State Health Data Organizations: Engines of Market Transparency and Insight - April 12th, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm ET

Across the country, states are investing in organizations and cross-departmental offices responsible for collecting, managing, integrating and analyzing health system data to provide policymakers, regulators, researchers and...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

The Manatt State Cost Containment Update - March 20, 2023 - State Benchmarking Updates: The State of Play

The State of Play: Cost Growth Benchmarking Programs (as of March 23, 2023) - Members of California’s Office of Health Care Affordability’s Affordability Board have been appointed by state leadership. The Board will begin...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Key Takeaways From the Gray v. Dignity Health Decision

On October 13, 2021, the California Court of Appeal, 1st District in San Francisco issued its opinion in Gray v. Dignity Health, 2021 WL 4771982. In a published decision that will likely control the outcome in at least six...more

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Strategies to Expand Transparency, Enhance Competition and Control Costs

Editor’s Note: In a new toolkit prepared for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, summarized below, Manatt Health helps insurance regulators understand the wide range of transparency and competition strategies available to...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

Health Plan Transparency Rule: Comment Period Ends This Week

In November 2019, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, along with the U.S. Department of Treasury and the U.S. Department of Labor, (collectively, the Departments) released a proposed rule requiring group health...more

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Connecticut Governor Lamont Issues Executive Orders Aiming to Contain Health Care Cost Growth and Improve Transparency

On January 22, 2020, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont issued two health care related executive orders (Executive Order No. 5 and Executive Order No. 6) (the Executive Orders) to address the increasing health care costs in...more

Pullman & Comley - Connecticut Health Law

Connecticut Governor Issues Executive Orders to Establish Statewide Healthcare Cost Growth and Quality Benchmarks

On January 22, 2020, Governor Ned Lamont signed two executive orders designed to reduce health care costs for Connecticut residents.  Citing data that places Connecticut sixth nationally in healthcare spending and the need to...more

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Employers May Need to Provide Cost Data Under Proposed ACA Rules

Employer-sponsored health plans and health insurers may be required to post online - and to provide participants upon request - a range of pricing and cost-sharing information beginning in 2021. Proposed Affordable Care...more

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Stimulating Consumerism In Health Care By Revealing Costs

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When is the last time one of your employees asked how much an in-network physician’s visit would cost? How much does a blood test cost at the hospital to which your doctor referred you, compared to the same blood test at...more

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Trump Administration Proposes Transparency Rule for Group Health Plans and Insurers

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On November 15, 2019, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Labor, and the Department of the Treasury (collectively, the Departments), unveiled a proposed rule (scheduled to be published on November...more

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CBO Report Shows Senate’s Bipartisan Bill on Surprise Billing, Drug Prices, Transparency, and More Would Result in Deficit...

On July 16, 2019, the Congressional Budget Office (“CBO”) released a Cost Estimate for Senate Bill S. 1895, the “Lower Health Care Costs Act.” The bipartisan bill, introduced June 19, 2019, intends to end surprise medical...more

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Congress Moves Forward on Legislation to End Surprise Medical Bills

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The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee recently voted to advance bipartisan legislation, called the Lower Health Care Costs Act (the Act), aimed at, among other things, curbing surprise medical bills. ...more

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Senate Bipartisan Discussion Draft Released to Lower Health Care Costs, Address Surprise Billing

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On May 23, 2019, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Patty Murray (D-WA) released the Lower Health Care Costs Act of 2019 – bipartisan draft legislation to reduce...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

Massachusetts HPC Health Care Cost Trends Hearing: Key Takeaways

The Massachusetts Health Policy Commission (“HPC”) held its annual Health Care Cost Trends Hearing on October 16-17, 2018. The hearing covered a wide range of topics affecting the health care industry here in the Commonwealth...more

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Seeking Interoperability: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

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As we have discussed in an earlier blog post, the federal administrative agencies have been placing greater emphasis on being more transparent and promoting “interoperability”....more

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State Efforts to Combat Drug Price Increases

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Growth in health care costs has long been a source of political and administrative tension for public health agencies across the country. More and more, health officials, legislators, patient advocacy groups, and third-party...more

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CMS Takes Action Against Network Transparency While New Jersey Legislation Hits a Snag

Just as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) began holding federal health care plans accountable for their provider network transparency obligations, the New Jersey legislature stalled in its bid to pass a law...more

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Thirteen Ways to Contain Health Care Costs in Massachusetts: The Health Policy Commission Issues Its 2015 Report and...

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In 2012 Massachusetts adopted the most recent in a series of comprehensive legislative approaches to health care reform, Chapter 224 of the Acts of 2012 (Chapter 224), which focused especially on addressing the drivers of...more

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Recent Developments in Massachusetts Health Policy

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Building on the momentum of early October hearings on the state’s growing health care expenditures, the Health Policy Commission (HPC), the Joint Committee on Health Care Financing, Governor Charlie Baker, and others spent...more

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Senate Finance Committee Hearing Discusses Transparency in Healthcare Pricing

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On June 18, 2013, the Senate Finance Committee held a hearing entitled, “High Prices, Low Transparency: The Bitter Pill of Health Care Costs.” Senators Max Baucus (D-MT) and Orrin Hatch (R-UT) gave statements on ways to...more

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