HHS Launches Design Contest for a Medical Bill People Can Actually Understand

Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell on Monday kicked off a contest to design a medical bill that is “simpler, cleaner, and easier for patients to understand.”

 

The A Bill You Can Understand challenge is sponsored by AARP and administered by the design agency Mad*Pow.

 

The challenge will issue two $5,000 awards: one for the innovator who designs the medical bill that is easiest to understand and another for the innovator who designs the best transformational approach to improve the medical billing system, focusing on what the patient sees and does throughout the process.