Mark Cuban Calls for Employers to Publish Health-Care Contracts

Mark Cuban, the Dallas Mavericks basketball team minority owner who co-founded Cost Plus Drugs, said large employers that pay their own health-care claims should make their health insurance and pharmaceutical contracts publicly available.

Publishing contracts with health-plan administrators and pharmacy benefit managers is “the Number One rule to fix the industry,” Cuban said Monday during a taped interview that aired at a health-care price transparency conference.

“The more transparency for our contracts, the more businesses of all sizes can learn, and we all can become better at what we do,” he said at the event sponsored by the Employers’ Forum ...