Price transparency affects everything from how health care expenses impact your bottom line to the economic health of your community and your state. In a recent piece for The Dallas Morning News, TXEAHC Executive Director Chris Skisak explains how new federal law shows why that matters — and provides state leaders a huge opportunity to protect Texas employers and the Texas economy.
May 27, 2026 | 12:00 pm CDT
Join Raymond Tsai, MD MS (Purchaser Business Group on Health) and David Schleifer, PhD (Peterson Philanthropies) to hear about the work that unlocked a fundamentally new way for employers to see what they’re paying for health care, what they’re getting, and where the system is failing them.
Learn how forward-thinking purchasers are using these insights to challenge entrenched market dynamics, reduce waste, and meet their fiduciary responsibilities with greater precision. If transparency has felt theoretical until now—this session shows how it becomes transformational, with a preview of what’s next and what you could do to join.
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The Hospital Cost Crisis: How Government Policies Drive Consolidation, Undermine Competition, and Fuel Soaring Prices
Rather than operating in a competitive market that rewards efficiency and value, hospitals increasingly function within a government-designed financing system that rewards consolidation, weakens accountability, and inflates prices.
DOJ Sends Clear Signal With Latest Antitrust Challenge to Hospital Contracting Practices
The DOJ made clear that contract provisions restricting insurers’ plan design flexibility — including all-or-nothing bundling requirements, anti-tiering and anti-steering terms, restrictions on narrow network and site-of-service steering, and limits on price transparency — will be subject to antitrust scrutiny, particularly when imposed by “must-have” providers.
If a critical mass of employers begins to purchase coverage on the basis of actual negotiated rates, they can collectively drive change across markets, as has been seen in the adoption of reference pricing by some state employee health plans.
The strong bipartisan concurrence around the fact that health care market consolidation has resulted in a lack of competition and perverse incentives that are distorting prices upwards creates a critical opportunity for lawmakers to come together and forge common sense solutions to rein in prices, lowering expenses for Texas employers and families.