Executive Order Calls For HSA Tweak Backed By Industry, Lawmakers

President Donald Trump’s wide-ranging executive order on price transparency also takes a step toward value-based insurance design by calling on the Treasury Department to expand the ability of high-deductible health plans linked to health savings accounts (HSAs) to cover preventive services before enrollees meet their deductibles. Employers and issuers have long pushed for the change, which they say would help chronically ill patients manage care, as have bipartisan lawmakers who suggest Treasury refer to their similar HSA legislation as a...