The Washington State Health Care Cost Transparency Board (HCCTB), created by House Bill 2457, is charged with reducing health care growth and increasing price transparency in Washington state. The HCCTB is currently receiving data from 11 insurance carriers and two state agencies for 2017 through 2019. While the HCCTB is focused on the data that must be submitted by October 1st, health care advocates are expressing concern that the most important component of high health care prices is being forgotten, its impact on the “people whose paychecks are increasingly being eaten up by premiums, deductibles, and other out-of-pocket costs.” 

In a letter to Health Care Authority Director and HCCTB Chair Sue Birch on August 10, 2022, NoHLA, joined by Health Care for All-WA, AFT Washington, Economic Opportunity Institute, Health Care is a Human Right-WA, and Patient Coalition of Washington, asked the Board to address these concerns. The next meeting of the HCCTB is on August 17th.