Lower Health Care Costs Act Includes HIM-Relevant Provisions

AHIMA July 23, 2019
Staff

Reducing healthcare costs and increased price transparency is a hot topic on Capitol Hill these days.

Before Congress departed for the Fourth of July district work period last week, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee overwhelmingly passed S. 1895, the Lower Health Care Costs Act out of committee.

Since the beginning of this year, the Senate HELP Committee has held five hearings on how to reduce healthcare costs and four hearings to explore the rising cost of prescription drugs. Prior to the introduction of S. 1895, AHIMA provided comments on a draft of the Lower Health Care Costs Act.

While much of S. 1895 focuses on surprise billing, setting benchmarks for payment, and reducing the cost of...

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