Price Transparency
Hospitals and health systems are committed to empowering patients and their families with all the information they need to live their healthiest lives. This includes ensuring they have access to accurate and timely price information when seeking care. Hospitals and health systems have made important progress in adopting federal price transparency requirements that require they both publicly post machine-readable files of a wide range of rate information and provide more consumer-friendly displays of pricing information for at least 300 shoppable services.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Hospital Price Transparency final rule goes into effect on Jan. 1, 2021. The AHA and three other national organizations sued the federal government challenging the final rule. The case is pending in a federal appeals court.
The American Hospital Association (AHA) shares our review of the discussion draft of the Patients Deserve Price Tags Act (PDPTA) (S. 2355) released on June 25.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) July 2 issued a proposed rule that would increase Medicare hospital outpatient prospective payment system (PPS) rates by a net 2.4% in calendar year (CY) 2027 compared to CY 2026.
AHA's comment on H.R. 9504, the “Tax-Exempt Hospital Transparency Act.”
The AHA provided a statement to the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health today for a hearing titled “Lowering Health Care Costs for All Americans: Examining Policies to Increase Health Care Transparency.”
The AHA is committed to working with the Subcommittee on additional price transparency concepts, including those vetted by our Price Transparency Task Force.
The House Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health will host a legislative hearing, “Lowering Health Care Costs for All Americans: Examining Policies to Increase Health Care Transparency,” on Wednesday, June 10, at 10:15 a.m. ET.
Hospitals and health systems have made important progress in adopting federal price transparency requirements that require they both publicly post machine-readable files of a wide range of rate information and provide more consumer-friendly displays of pricing information for at least 300 shoppable…
Policymakers are increasingly focused on price transparency as a tool to improve affordability, provide price certainty to patients, and better inform employers and other healthcare purchasers and researchers about healthcare spending.
Hospitals and health systems are where the most complex care is provided for ill and injured patients. Yet spending on inpatient and outpatient care has grown more slowly than spending on other health services. Hospitals and health systems have worked hard to provide the best value to patients and…