Today, most medical bills are surprise medical bills.
The Trump administration attempted to provide some peace of mind and transparency to patients through two rules in 2019 that would require most health-care providers to disclose their prices before people have a procedure.
While the hospitals hold those rules up in court, the fight has moved to the Senate.
The Health Care PRICE Transparency Act, introduced in June, would codify the Trump administration's rules and make it a legal requirement for prices to be available to patients.
Although the Trump administration's rules are still caught in legal limbo, the substance of the rules is both revolutionary and maddeningly overdue.
In issuing rules to require hospitals and insurers to work together to disclose to patients understandable, up-front real prices, the Trump administration got one big thing right.
The Trump administration deserves credit for applying this simple principle where it is needed most.
https://spectator.org/surprise-medical-billing-trump-administration/
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