The Hill Runs PRA Op-Ed Explaining How Healthcare Price Transparency Can Reduce Inflation
The Hill ran PRA’s op-ed explaining how robust enforcement of the hospital price transparency rule can help overcome outrageous healthcare inflation as well as historical overall inflation. As the op-ed argues:
Armed with actual, upfront prices, consumers can shop for the more than 90 percent of healthcare that’s not for emergencies, significantly reducing the costs of care, prescription drugs, and health insurance. Patients and workers can enjoy larger paychecks as less compensation is cannibalized by coverage costs, helping them during this time they need it most.
Robust hospital price transparency can put downward pressure on overall inflation by addressing its largest and longest-running source: outrageous healthcare costs.
Read the full piece HERE.