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 AHA responded to a RAND Corporation study that found certain prices paid to hospitals by private health plans are high relative to Medicare. The study examined hospital prices for a limited number of employers and health plans from 2016 to 2018.
It is unfortunate that RAND continues to make broad claims about pricing based on a cherry-picked and limited data set.
This week, the RAND Corporation is slated to release Round 3 of its National Hospital Price Transparency Study, an employer-led initiative intended to measure and report publicly the prices paid for care at the hospital and service-line level.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Sept. 2 issued its hospital inpatient prospective payment system (PPS) and long-term care hospital (LTCH) PPS final rule for fiscal year (FY) 2021.
ORAL ARGUMENT SCHEDULED FOR OCTOBER 15, 2020
No. 20-5193
In the United States Court of Appeals
for the District of Columbia Circuit
THE AMERICAN HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION, ET AL.,
APPELLANTS
[ORAL ARGUMENT SCHEDULED FOR OCTOBER 15, 2020]
No. 20-5193
IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT
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No. 20-5193
In the United States Court of Appeals
for the District of Columbia Circuit
The American Hospital Association, et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants,
v.
Alex M. Azar II, Secretary of Health and Human Services,
Defendant and Appellee.
NO DATE FOR ORAL ARGUMENT HAS BEEN SET
No. 20-5193
In a friend-of-the-court brief supporting an appeal by AHA and other hospital groups, 40 state and regional hospital associations today urged the federal appeals court in Washington, D.C.,
ORAL ARGUMENT NOT YET SCHEDULED
No. 20-5193
IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
THE AMERICAN HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION, et al.,
Appellants,
v.
ALEX M. AZAR II, in his official capacity as Secretary of Health and Human Services,
Appellee,