Administration News - President Bush To Sign Executive Order Requiring Four Federal Agencies To Compile, Share Health Care Quality, Price Data President Bush is scheduled to sign an executive order on Tuesday that would require HHS, the Department of Defense, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Office of Personnel Management to collect more information about the quality and cost of health care they provide and share that data with each other www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?hint=3&DR_ID=39362

2006-08-22

State Watch - Missouri House Republicans Propose Health Coverage Legislation To Replace Governor's Failed Proposal Missouri Republican House leaders have introduced legislation that would expand health coverage to low-income state residents and require beneficiaries to contribute money to savings accounts to use toward deductibles and copayments, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. The proposal, called 'Insure Missouri, www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?hint=3&DR_ID=51418

2008-04-08

Capitol Hill Watch - 'Progress' Made on Legislation That Would Promote Health IT, Lawmakers Say House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Joe Barton (R-Texas) on Thursday after a meeting with Republican leaders said 'some progress was made' on finalizing legislation that would promote the implementation of health care information technology (Ota/Reichard, CQ HealthBeat, 9/28). The health care IT bill ( www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?hint=3&DR_ID=40125

2006-09-29

Ask the Experts: Price Transparency View kaisernetwork.org's Ask the Experts for a discussion of price transparency. Panelists will examine industry and government efforts to disclose prices for health care services to encourage consumers to shop more wisely, as well as the challenges in implementing more transparent pricing in the health syst www.kaisernetwork.org/health_cast/hcast_index.cfm?display=detail&hc=1783

2006-07-25

Capitol Hill Watch - House Health Subcommittee Hearing Examines Bush Administration Effort To Increase Price Transparency The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health on Wednesday held a hearing on the potential effects of increased price transparency for health care providers, CQ HealthBeat reports. Supporters said that increased price transparency will help consumers make health care decisions and lead to reduced cost www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?hint=3&DR_ID=36083

2006-03-17

Special Notice - Live 'Ask the Experts' Today Will Address Price Transparency On Tuesday, July 25, at 2:30 p.m. ET a panel of experts will discuss price transparency during a live webcast of 'Ask the Experts,' a kaisernetwork.org program. Gerard Anderson, Ph.D., professor of health policy and management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Charles M. Cutler, M.D., v www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?hint=3&DR_ID=38697

2006-07-25

Capitol Hill Watch - 'Price Transparency' Provision Removed From House Health Care Information Technology Bill House leaders on Wednesday removed a provision that would have required hospitals to make public some price information from a health care information technology bill (HR 4157), CQ Today reports (Crowley, CQ Today, 7/26). The legislation, sponsored by Reps. Nancy Johnson (R-Conn.) and Nathan Deal (R-Ga.), wo www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?hint=3&DR_ID=38769

2006-07-27

Capitol Hill Watch - Expert Calls for More Price Transparency During House Subcommittee Hearing Harvard Business School professor Regina Herzlinger on Tuesday at a House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health hearing said that the federal government should establish an independent agency to make information on health care prices and quality more available, CQ HealthBeat reports. Herzlinger said, 'Every www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?hint=3&DR_ID=38580

2006-07-19

Coverage & Access - CQ HealthBeat Examines Bush Administration Plan To Improve Price Transparency; HealthGrades Offers Price Reports for a Fee CQ HealthBeat on Friday examined the Bush administration's plan to disclose price and quality data from health care providers. According to HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt, government analysts will examine claims data from Medicare, Medicaid, the Department of Defense and Federal Employee Health Benefits programs www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?hint=3&DR_ID=36120

2006-03-20

Opinion - High-Deductible Plans Create Competitive Market, Reduce Costs, Op-Ed Says Recent data provided by eHealthinsurance.com shows that '[i]mproved affordability of health insurance has resulted from a competitive marketplace' created by growing price transparency and the increasing popularity of high-deductible health insurance plans, Scott Atlas, senior fellow at Stanford University's www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?hint=3&DR_ID=38482

2006-07-13