Health Affairs July 11, 2018
Transparency is vital to opening up our at-times opaque health system and fostering a more competitive health care Marketplace, so it’s welcome news that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary Alex Azar has embraced the cause. We are transparency advocates with battle scars to prove it: Joel as insurance commissioner in Pennsylvania and Oregon plus a stint at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on the exchanges, and Kevin as an expert in the use of data in health care, helping states across the country to develop effective strategies to connect all-payer claims databases (APCDs) to actual data needs.
In this post, we offer some best practices when it comes to transparency. We highlight how states...