CHIME, NAACOS Respond to Senate HELP Committee’s RFI on Rising Healthcare Costs

Healthcare associations have written to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), responding to committee Chairman Lamar Alexander’s (R-Tenn.) request for information to address healthcare’s rising costs.

In December, Alexander remarked that “up to half of healthcare spending is unnecessary,” while asking for as many specific legislative, regulatory, or sub-regulatory solutions as possible, in writing, by March 1. More recently, it was revealed by CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) actuaries that national health expenditure growth is expected to average 5.5 percent annually from 2018 to 2027, reaching...