What are we committing to related to health care price disclosure?

Answer:

For the benefit of their employees, employers are encouraged to request that the health insurance plans, third party administrators, providers, and others with which they contract make available to enrollees in the health plans they sponsor the cost or price of their care.  As consensus develops through broad-based national collaborations on approaches for measuring and reporting cost or price information for the benefit of consumers, employers are encouraged to adopt these approaches and to request that those with which they contract do the same. 

Employers are encouraged to work to assure that cost or price information is made available with quality information.  Employers also are encouraged to request that those with which they contract join broad-based, public-private collaborative efforts to develop strategies to measure the overall cost of services for common episodes of care and the treatment of common chronic diseases.

Learn more about price standards: http://www.hhs.gov/valuedriven/fourcornerstones/price/index.html

Last Updated: 5/8/2008