Price Transparency: Shifting Responsibility to Employers

In this intriguing video, important advances in transparency of health care prices are explained by Mark Galvin, Founder, President and CEO at TALON at the HCAA conference in Las Vegas.

Two “watershed moments” have been overlooked by most people, while media coverage focuses on other things such as the No Surprises Act.

The first change came when a recent “transparency in coverage” law leverages fines on sponsors (normally employers), who the government hopes will then put pressure on health care providers to be more transparent.

The second came with a class action lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson, signaling to employers that they can’t evade the transparency requirement.

Galvin also looks forward to reducing the disparity in payments for different providers through the definition of “universal acceptable payment amounts,” and advances that allow a provider to receive full payment at the time of care.

Learn more about TALON: https://talonhealthtech.com/

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About the author

Andy Oram

Andy is a writer and editor in the computer field. His editorial projects have ranged from a legal guide covering intellectual property to a graphic novel about teenage hackers. A correspondent for Healthcare IT Today, Andy also writes often on policy issues related to the Internet and on trends affecting technical innovation and its effects on society. Print publications where his work has appeared include The Economist, Communications of the ACM, Copyright World, the Journal of Information Technology & Politics, Vanguardia Dossier, and Internet Law and Business. Conferences where he has presented talks include O'Reilly's Open Source Convention, FISL (Brazil), FOSDEM (Brussels), DebConf, and LibrePlanet. Andy participates in the Association for Computing Machinery's policy organization, named USTPC, and is on the editorial board of the Linux Professional Institute.

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