A bill that would allow North Carolina State Health Plan administrators to see the prices of surgeries and other medical care advanced in the N.C. House on Tuesday. H.B. 169 allows the Health Plan access to its claims payment data and negotiated rates. The State Health Plan provides insurance coverage for more than 750,000 state employees including teachers, law enforcement employees, state retirees, and their dependents. It costs N.C. taxpayers approximately two billion dollars annually. The bill was filed in response to N.C. Treasurer Dale Folwell’s call for more transparency in health care pricing, but some members were concerned about how the state would use the information.