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.
Hospitals’ Emergency Motion for Stay Re: Disclosure of Negotiated Rates
AHA letter requesting the Biden Administration exercise enforcement discretion with respect to compliance with the Centers for Medicare…
The AHA today filed a motion asking the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to stay the price transparency rule until the new administration has the opportunity to review and revise it and because implementing it would divert essential personnel from caring for a huge influx of…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said that will audit a sample of hospitals in January for compliance with the agency’s hospital price transparency rule that takes effect Jan. 1, 2021.
These are meant to help you respond to tough questions about the price transparency rule and the position hospitals and health systems have taken on the requirement to disclose negotiated rates. These can also be tailored as needed.
Do you oppose the rule? If so, why?
. SUPPLEMENTAL SAMPLE PATIENT MESSAGES
These are meant to help you talk with patients about understanding their out-of-pocket costs. The messages also address why the disclosure of privately negotiated rates does not advance this goal. These should be tailored to best align with your current…
This self-assessment is designed to offer a basic framework that hospital leaders can use to evaluate how far they are along the journey of price transparency and consider whether they are successfully communicating such efforts to their patients and communities.
This exercise enables hospital leaders to get a shared sense of the challenges consumers face in trying to access hospital price information.
As consumers take on greater responsibility for the cost of their care, hospitals have a responsibility to communicate with consumers upfront, sharing meaningful information and demonstrating caring and trust.
Price transparency is a complex issue that is important to not just patients but to everyone involved – hospitals, insurers, physicians, providers, employers, etc. Moving towards price transparency that is truly patient-centered will be a multi-step process that requires the participation of all…