National Coalition On Health Care

The Coalition draws its strength from its diverse members. As a nonpartisan and nonprofit coalition of more than 80 participating organizations, NCHC represents medical societies, businesses, unions, health care providers, faith-based associations, pension and health funds, insurers, and groups representing consumers, patients, women, minorities, and persons with disabilities.

NCHC supports reducing the patient financial burden of an expensive health care system. As such, the Coalition supports eliminating the practice of surprise medical billing. Surprise medical billing arises when a patient is held liable for health services that have been left unpaid. Additionally, surprise medical billing is most closely associated with ancillary and emergency services provided by out-of-network physicians.

The second briefing, "Drug Pricing Reform: The Costs of Inaction, " focused broadly on the evidence behind claims that lowering drug prices will lead to fewer drugs developed. Watch the full. The conversation was moderated by Noam Levey, a national health care reporter with the Los Angeles Times, followed by another.

Discussing the role that price transparency can play in advancing health care affordability. Understanding the role APCDs could play in driving purchaser leverage to reduce health care costs. Responding to market failures with a wide range of strategies to rein in price increases and variations.

Specifically, we wanted to understand the role price transparency, as required in two federal rules finalized in 2020, could play to support smarter health care purchasing and to spur greater price competition in health care.