Policy & Medicine February 27, 2025
On February 25, 2025, President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order aimed at enhancing healthcare price transparency and empowering patients with clear, accurate, and actionable pricing information. This order builds upon previous efforts from his administration to make healthcare costs more transparent and accessible to consumers. This executive order is to increase regulations and enforcement of Executive Order 13877 previously issued on June 24, 2019 (Improving Price and Quality Transparency in American Healthcare to Put Patients First) during the first Trump administration.
Key Provisions of the Executive Order
The executive order directs the Departments of Treasury, Labor, and Health and Human Services to take swift action in implementing and enforcing healthcare price transparency regulations. Specifically, it calls...