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Caitlin Owens

Trump's executive order calls for more transparent hospital rates

President Trump with HHS Secretary Alex Azar. Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

President Trump will sign an executive order today directing his administration to require hospitals to disclose more information about the prices patients and insurers actually pay. The order also aims to give patients more information about their out-of-pocket costs.

What's next: The prices hospitals negotiate with insurers are valuable business information, and both parties will likely fight hard to keep those prices secret.

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