The AFL-CIO Health & Welfare Plan (the Plan) is required to provide certain information on a public website under a new federal government regulation, the Transparency in Coverage Final Rule (Rule). The Rule is intended to make health care pricing information available to the general public so that the public (and researchers, legislators and regulators) can better understand the health care system and its costs so that health care spending can be controlled.
The Rule requires the Plan to post links to machine-readable files that contain information about the price of health care services. A machine-readable file is written in computer code and is an extremely large file. It is not intended to be downloaded without specialty software. The files do not contain Protected Health Information (PHI) about you or your family.
Links on this website provide machine-readable files for the Plan’s in-network negotiated rates and historical allowed amounts for out-of-network charges. The files attached to the links are maintained by UnitedHealthcare (UHC) and will be updated automatically each month.
If you have any questions about the Rule, you can read more information at https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/fact-sheets/transparency-coverage-final-rule-fact-sheet-cms-9915-f
Here is the link for the files:
https://transparency-in-coverage.uhc.com/
To search for the AFL-CIO Health & Welfare Plan files, type CTRL+F on your keyboard to bring up a search bar and type in AFL-CIO. Multiple files may appear. Select the files with AFL-CIO in the name and the information and area of interests (network rates, allowed amounts, etc.).