Public Health

AFPI Urges Congress: Stop Forcing Americans to Pay for Abortions

Today, the America First Policy Institute (AFPI), urged Congress to stop using taxpayer dollars to fund abortions.

Putting Patients First: Hannah Anderson & Dr. Tom Keane on Health Tech

No More Surprise Bills: Hannah Anderson and Mark Atalla on Drug Price Transparency

Employer Health Claims Transparency Act

Between 2004 and 2025, the average annual cost of employer-sponsored health insurance for families at small employers increased 167%, from $9,737 to $26,054. Third party administrators (TPAs) and pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) that administer employers’ benefits rarely provide employers with the medical and pharmacy claims data of their workforce. This prevents employers from rooting out waste and fraud that raises costs on workers as well as determining the reasonableness of the fees that an insurer charges, which employers who sponsor health benefits are required to do under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act.

Protect Patients From Dishonest Billing

Dishonest medical billing occurs when an off-campus physician practice within a hospital system falsely claims to be a hospital and adds a hospital “facility fee” to the bill. When a health care facility bills a patient’s insurer, it must report a federally required National Provider Identifier (NPI) number on the claim form to identify where the care took place.