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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “The department estimates these reforms could reduce the size of our pricing files by 70% while making…”

Featuring: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Independent | United States Secretary of Health and Human Services | National

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They can even include negotiated rights for services, as like I mentioned, for providers that are never going to provide that service, like a podiatrist performing transplants or heart transplant surgery. Today's rule eliminates that kind of noise. The department estimates these reforms could reduce the size of our pricing files by 70% while making information much easier to analyze and compare. We are also requiring health plans and insurers to attest that pricing data they publish is true, accurate and complete, and to identify the senior official at that company who is responsible for that data and for those statements. (08:24–08:37)

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Asserts that reforms could reduce pricing file sizes by 70% and improve data analysis and comparison.

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