Health Affairs March 19, 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.
Price transparency is a long sought-for goal in health care that seemed out of reach for many years. In 2019, the Trump administration released an executive order requiring both hospitals and insurance companies to release previously hidden price data. The insurance price information, released as...