Patient advocates laud Trump’s new healthcare accountability, transparency rule

(The Center Square) – The Trump administration’s final rule on “Transparency in Coverage” that intends to help fulfil the promise of healthcare affordability has been met favorably by advocacy groups as something that will bring accountability to healthcare and lower costs for Americans. Founder and chairman of PatientRightsAdvocate.org Cynthia A. Fisher told The Center Square that the Trump administration “took a transformative step to lower health care costs, stop overcharges, and hold insurers and hospitals accountable,” by its Transparency in Coverage (TiC) final rule. The final rule’s “added requirement of executive attestation that published prices…