Becker's Healthcare March 28, 2025
Francesca Mathewes

On Feb. 25, President Donald Trump signed an executive order targeted at boosting healthcare price transparency.

Here are five other notes on the conversation surrounding price transparency for ASC leaders and physicians under the second Trump administration:

1. The order directs HHS and the Labor and Treasury departments to “rapidly implement and enforce” healthcare price transparency enforcement regulations. The order refers to regulations that President Trump introduced during his first term, which he said the Biden administration was “slow walking,” according to a Feb. 25 White House fact sheet.

2. The departments will ensure hospitals and payers disclose actual prices, not estimates, and take action to “make prices comparable across hospitals and insurers, including prescription drug prices.”

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