As directed by President Trump’s Executive Order on Improving Price and Quality Transparency in American Healthcare, today the Department of Health and Human Services is announcing that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is issuing two rules that take historic steps to increase price transparency to empower patients and increase competition among all hospitals, group health plans and health insurance issuers in the individual and group markets.
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Transparency in Coverage Proposed Rule (CMS- 9915 –P)
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On November 15, 2019, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized policies that follow directives in President Trump’s Executive Order, entitled “Improving Price and Quality Transparency in American Healthcare to Put Patients First,” that lay the foundation for a patient-driven healthcare system by making prices for items and services provided by all hospitals in the United States more transparent for patients so that they can be more informed about what they might pay for hospital items and services.
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In week two of the 2020 Open Enrollment, 754,967 people selected plans using the HealthCare.gov platform.
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Today, the Trump Administration and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking to strengthen the fiscal integrity of the Medicaid
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CMS Administrator Seema Verma’s Speech to the National Association of Medicaid Directors in Washington, D.C