ADVOCACY SPOTLIGHT: Advocating for Transparency in Health Care

Advocacy Spotlight

Advocating for Transparency in Health Care

ASCA works with legislators for patient access to health care data

Advocacy Spotlight

ASCA steadfastly advocates for increased price transparency and accessibility to health care data that would assist providers, payers and especially patients as they consider choices in health care.

Advocacy Spotlight

Advocating for Transparency in Health Care

ASCA works with legislators for patient access to health care data

Access to health care information has come under increased scrutiny in the US Congress, and momentum for better transparency is building. In February, a bipartisan group of senators requested information from health care stakeholders regarding cost of care and price transparency. Led by Senator Bill Cassidy, MD (R-LA), the group issued a letter to the health care community as the first step in an “effort to increase health care price and information transparency to empower patients, improve the quality of health care and lower health care costs.”


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