Bipartisan lawmakers are advancing bills that would require hospitals and insurers to disclose their prices.
The 2023 UHCDA is intended to supersede its predecessor, the 1993 Uniform Health-Care Decisions Act (1993 Act). The 1993 Act acknowledged the right of an individual to make decisions about their own ...
When the No Surprises Act took effect in 2022, it was a rare feat of bipartisan problem-solving. The law was meant to prevent ...
The fight over covid-era health insurance subsidies that could trigger a government shutdown highlights what even supporters of the Affordable Care Act fight admit is a flaw in the original law: It ...
President Donald Trump and some congressional Republicans are mulling a second round of party-line legislation — like Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill — to pursue GOP health care goals and other ...
The 21 st Century Cures Act in 2016 empowered HHS to regulate information blocking, and the agency passed a final rule on it in 2023. Health care companies engage in it for a variety of reasons—some ...
Despite legislation aiming to increase price transparency in healthcare, the current system makes it difficult for hospitals to provide accurate upfront cost estimates. A simplified, standardized ...
The White House and lawmakers have just a matter of weeks before federal subsidies are set to expire, potentially kicking roughly 5 million Americans off their health insurance, according to some ...