Health Affairs June 4, 2025
Editor’s Note
This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront series, Provider Prices in the Commercial Sector, featuring analysis and discussion of physician, hospital, and other health care provider prices in the private-sector markets and their contribution to overall spending therein. Additional articles will be published throughout 2025. Readers are encouraged to review the Call for Submissions for this series. We are grateful to Arnold Ventures for their support of this work.
On May 22, 2025, the Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and the Treasury (the “tri-agencies”) issued a press release announcing several actions to enhance health care price transparency, including two new guidance documents and two requests for information (RFIs). Through these steps, the tri-agencies...







