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.
A recording and other materials are available following last week's Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' webinar on meeting new hospital price transparency requirements that become effective Jan. 1.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Oct. 21 is hosting a webinar on meeting its new hospital price transparency requirements becoming effective Jan. 1.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Oct. 21 will host a webinar on meeting its new hospital price transparency requirements becoming effective Jan. 1.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Oct. 21 will host a webinar on meeting new hospital price transparency requirements which become effective Jan. 1.
The Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services Aug. 20 released a report presenting data on complaints and enforcement efforts by the agency concerning title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act, which includes both the surprise billing and price transparency provisions of the No Surprises Act.
The AHA submitted a statement July 11 for a Senate Special Committee on Aging hearing on health care transparency and lowering health care costs.
The American Hospital Association shares the hospital field’s comments on health care costs and transparency before the Senate Special Committee on Aging.
Since going into effect, CMS has made several changes to the Hospital Price Transparency Rule requirements on hospitals. The most recent set of changes, including requiring hospitals to use a standard machine-readable file format, go into effect July 1, 2024.
Changes to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' Hospital Price Transparency Rule took effect July 1. Going forward, hospitals are required to use a standard machine-readable file format, which includes some new data elements, such as the negotiated rate methodology and an accuracy and…