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.
Government Responds to Hospital Group Letter on the Executive Order (Oct. 1, 2020)
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services launched a website on the rule requiring hospitals to disclose their negotiated rates.
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RE: American Hospital Association, et al. v. Azar, No. 20-5193 (argument scheduled October 15, 2020)
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The recent Department of Health and Human…
September 25, 2020
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How RAND Corporation is endangering our high-value healthcare systems by oversimplifying the complexities of how the system works.
Kaufman Strategic Advisors Managing Director Nate Kaufman responded to the RAND Corporation’s flawed and incomplete hospital pricing survey in a new analysis published.
President Trump signed an executive order on a number of health care issues, including protecting people with pre-existing medical conditions from insurance discrimination and ending surprise medical billing.
The RAND Corporation last week released the third edition of its hospital price transparency study, which once again missed the mark with its flawed methodology, writes Aaron Wesolowski, AHA vice president for policy research, analytics and strategy, in the AHA Stat Blog.
The RAND Corporation has released the third edition of its hospital price transparency study. The AHA previously highlighted our extensive concerns with the data and methodology used in the last version.
September 21, 2020
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Mr. Mark J. Langer
Clerk of the Court
United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Courthouse and
William B. Bryant Annex
333 Constitution Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20001
Re: American Hospital Association et al. v.…