Putting Patients First: Implementing Patient Cost Transparency Using HL7® FHIR®

In February 2025, President Trump issued a new Executive Order on healthcare pricing transparency, signaling that the federal government is planning on stronger enforcement and clearer expectations for patient transparency to make informed healthcare decisions. Since the 2021 enactment of the No Surprises Act, which sought to protect consumers from surprise medical bills arising out of certain out-of-network emergency care, a multistakeholder, industry-driven initiative has been working on a standardized approach to patient cost transparency implementation. In this session you will learn about the U.S. healthcare ecosystem’s renewed efforts to make systemic changes to promote transparency and align incentives to empower patients to use their health data to make informed decisions. Discover how providers, payers and vendors are collaborating and harnessing HL7® FHIR® to automate and streamline processes and improve data exchange for patient cost transparency. Learn about the industry initiative’s work on Good Faith Estimates data exchange between providers and hear about the progress of early adopter pilot projects. Learn how their collective efforts will ultimately provide more efficient coordination, faster processing, and enable accurate, real-time access via apps to the cost of medical care prior to delivery, allowing patients to make better healthcare decisions.