HHS, AARP contest seeks better-designed patient bill

Modern Healthcare (complimentary online subscription): The $5,000 prize money isn't much, but the benefits could be huge for patients if an HHS contest to design a better medical bill produces a winner.It's just one of the latest efforts in part of a growing movement to give patients the tools they need to control costs and their healthcare.In announcing the government's new "A Bill You Can Understand" design and innovation competition, HHS Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell said Monday the process will include patients, doctors, hospitals, insurance companies and innovators.

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