PRESS RELEASES, LETTERS, AND COMMENT SUBMISSIONS

• January, 26, 2021: Letter to President Biden

• January 7, 2021: Statement on Events at the U. S. Capitol

• December 29, 2020: Statement on the U.S. Court of Appeals Decision

• October 29, 2020: Statement on the Transparency in Coverage final rule

• October 22, 2020: Statement from Newt Gingrich, Ken Blackwell, Brian Blase, and Steve Forbes on the Economic Impact of Healthcare Price Transparency

• August 28, 2020: Statement from Cynthia A. Fisher, a leading force behind the healthcare price transparency movement, founder and CEO of PatientRightsAdvocate.org, and a former life sciences entrepreneur.

• August 21, 2020: Patient Advocacy Groups File Amicus Brief Supporting Dept. Of Justice In Price Transparency Litigation

• July 27, 2020: PatientRightsAdvocate.org Letter to Congress

• July 20, 2020: New Poll in Battleground States Demonstrates Strong Support for Healthcare Price Transparency in the Next COVID-19 Stimulus Package

• June 30, 2020: PatientRightsAdvocate.org Statement Commending The Healthcare PRICE Transparency Act

• June 23, 2020: PatientRightsAdvocate.org Statement on American Hospital Association (AHA), et. al., v. Azar

• June 1, 2020: Poll Demonstrates Strong Bipartisan Belief Price Transparency Would Lower Prices and Provide Financial Relief

• May 7, 2020: PatientRightsAdvocate.org Statement on AHA v. Azar Hearing

• April 3, 2020: For Patient Advocate With Administration’s Trust, COVID-19 Adds New Urgency

• March 28, 2020: PatientRightsAdvocate.org Mourns Loss of Dr. Tom Coburn, Celebrates His Legacy

• March 9, 2020: PatientRightsAdvocate.org Statement Commending Today’s Interoperability and Patient Access Final Rules from CMS and ONC

• February 14, 2020: Second Letter to Coffeyville Regional Medical Center Regarding Suing of Patients for Medical Debt

• February 13, 2020: CDC Heightens Coronavirus Tracking In Some Cities — Azar Faces Grilling From Congress — Influential Conservative Group Backs Trump's Transparency Push

• February 13, 2020: Patient Advocacy Groups File Amicus Brief Supporting Dept. Of Justice In Price Transparency Litigation

• February 12, 2020: Letter to Coffeyville Regional Medical Center Regarding Suing of Patients for Medical Debt

• January 31, 2020: Letter to OMB and HHS Supporting Finalization of the Interoperability Proposed Rules

• January 29, 2020: Americans deserve a price-transparent health care system

• January 29, 2020: PatientRightsAdvocate.org Comment Submission to Transparency In Coverage Proposed Rule

• January 24, 2020: Epic ramps up campaign against HHS interop rules

• January 23, 2020: Epic CEO emails hospital customers urging them to speak out against ONC interoperability rule

• January 23, 2020: Healthcare After Obamacare Highlighted by Rep. Roy, Others at TPPF Panel

• December 4, 2019: PatientRightsAdvocate.org Statements on Today’s Lawsuit Filed by Hospital Groups to Block Price Transparency Rule

• November 15, 2019: Statement on Trump Administration’s Final Healthcare Price Transparency Rules

• September 27, 2019: PatientRightsAdvocate.org Comment Submission to Outpatient Prospective Payment System Proposed Rule

• June 20, 2019: Physicians Supporting Real Price Transparency in Healthcare

• June 3, 2019: PatientRightsAdvocate.org Comment Submission to the ONC Interoperability Proposed Rule

• June 3, 2019: PatientRightsAdvocate.org Comment Submission to the CMS Interoperability Proposed Rule

Videos

ARTICLES & OP EDs

• For True Health Care Price Transparency, Insurers Must Show Prices, Too

• Employers, Public May Help Health Price Disclosure Rules Endure

• Insurers Must Stop the Tricks, New Rule Says, Offering Consumers a Treat

• Why a Health Care Price Transparency Legal Victory Will Be a Monumental Win for American Consumers

• What Women Want: Affordable, Shoppable Health Care

• Senate Stimulus Alternative Can Include Health Care Price Transparency

• Justice Department Makes a Strong Case for Health Care Price Transparency

• The Coronavirus Is Catapulting American Health Care Into the 21st Century

• Healthcare Stimulus Lacks a Major Taxpayer Protection

• Hospitals Taking Bailouts Should Quit Trying to Keep Their Prices Secret

• HHS considers rolling back interoperability timeline amid Covid-19

• Hospitals gain two-year delay to implement full info-blocking decisions

• Hospitals' Free Speech Argument on Prices Draws Wary

• Health Tech Pros Spotlight Limits on Patient Data Dictionary

• Independent surgery centers offer cash-based, transparency prices

• Price transparency is the other side of the public option coin

• The Business of Better Health Care

• Top 5 Health Policy Predictions for 2020

• Price Transparency is More than a Worthwhile Experiment

• Commentary: Business Roundtable Should Demand Health Care Cost Transparency

• How price transparency would revolutionize healthcare

• Imagine a situation where you knew just what your surgery would cost

• Congress Shouldn’t Miss the Opportunity to Sensibly Address Surprise Medical Bills

• Texas CEO did something about escalating employee health care costs. And it worked!

• Here’s why price transparency can revolutionize healthcare

• Medical errors prevalent and costly, new survey of Massachusetts residents shows

• They Want It to Be Secret: How a Common Blood Test Can Cost $11 or Almost $1,000

• Action on health care pricing transparency needed to stem rising costs

• Where We Stand: A Patient’s Bill of Rights

• Price Transparency in Healthcare will save Trillions

• How to Fight an Outrageous Medical Bill

• The High Price of No Prices

• Oklahoma City Hospital Posts Prices, Starts Bidding War

• Americans Borrowed $88B for Health Care

TV, Radio, & Podcasts

• NPR Weekend Edition: The New Year Will Bring More Transparency In Hospital Prices

• CBS News: New law requires hospitals to publish prices, including private deals with insurers

• Patients Rising Podcast: Patient Victory for Price Transparency

• The Today Show: Cost of coronavirus: Patients hit with hefty bills for ‘free’ tests

• Answers for the Family

Patient Stories

• As Patients Struggle With Bills, Hospital Sues Thousands

• A spinal surgery, a $101,000 bill, and a new law to prevent more surprises

• This woman’s polite request may have saved her $12,000 in surgery costs

• To patients’ surprise, a visit to urgent care brings steep hospital bill

• Oregonians Pay Way More Than They Should For Insulin. One Couple Is Fighting to Change That

• Patients Hit With 'Surprise Bills' After Urgent Care Visits

HHS News and rule making

• CMS Takes Bold Action to Implement Key Elements of President Trump’s Executive Order to Empower Patients

• HHS Proposes New Rules to Improve the Interoperability of Health Information

Books and Whitepapers

• Transparent Prices Will Help Consumers and Employers Reduce Health Spending

• Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won’t Tell you and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Healthcare

• An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back

• The Price We Pay: What Broke American Healthcare - and How to Fix It

• Who Killed Health Care? America’s $2 Trillion Medical Problem

• Health Care Is Stealing the American Dream