Health Affairs March 19, 2025
Editor’s Note
This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic, “Health Policy at a Crossroads,” produced with the support of the Commonwealth Fund. Articles in this topic will offer timely analysis of regulatory, legislative, and judicial developments in health policy under the Trump-Vance Administration and the 119th Congress.
The Trump administration issued an executive order on February 25, 2025 to signal its ongoing interest in enhancing health care price transparency and outline steps federal agencies should take to further implement and enforce existing federal price transparency rules. These rules, established during the first Trump administration and strengthened under the Biden administration, aim to spur competition and drive down costs by arming patients, employers, and policymakers with...