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AHA backs price transparency bill

Quality Improvement Monitor, April 6, 2007

The American Hospital Association (AHA) has endorsed the Health Care Price Transparency Promotion Act, H.R. 1666, which would build on existing state efforts to report hospital pricing data and require insurers to disclose estimated out-of-pocket costs to consumers.

The bill also would ask the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to study what types of price information consumers want, according to a story on the AHA's Web site.

"Sharing meaningful information with consumers about the price of their hospital care will greatly enhance the market-based approach to healthcare," AHA Executive Vice President Rick Pollack said in a letter of support to the bill's sponsors.

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