KFF February 25, 2025

Promoting price transparency in health care is a policy approach with bi-partisan support in Congress and the public at large, and the first Trump administration finalized regulations that require group health plans and insurers to make detailed data with all their in-network payment rates available with the objective that such transparency would increase price competition and ultimately drive down health care costs.

This report documents how the vast troves of data reported in pursuit of those goals include misleading and unlikely prices, inconsistencies, and other oddities that pose significant challenges for researchers, industry and others seeking to make...

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