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.
Use AHA model letter to submit your comments to CMS by Sept. 27
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in its hospital outpatient prospective payment system proposed rule for calendar year 2020 proposes to require that hospitals publicly post on the internet a machine-readable file…
The AHA has developed a model comment letter that hospitals and health systems can use to submit comments to CMS about these proposals. Download the letter and use it to submit your comments to CMS by Sept. 27.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee in July passed legislation, The No Surprises Act (H.R. 2328), to prevent surprise medical bills.
AHA Ask: Policymakers should focus on assisting rural hospitals in their negotiations with payers and providing the incentives and resources needed to maintain…
UnitedHealth Group’s brief on hospital prices uses cherry-picked data and omits important facts to paint a misleading picture.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services July 29 released the calendar year 2020 outpatient prospective payment system/ambulatory surgical center proposed rule.
A recent American Enterprise Institute blog on hospital prices fails to capture the full story on how hospitals and health systems have slowed price growth.
Air ambulances charged an average four to 10 times what Medicare paid for their services in 2016, according to a study reported this week in Health Affairs.
House Energy & Commerce Committee could mark up its bill after Independence Day recess
Leaders of the House Energy & Commerce Committee Health Subcommittee may move to mark up the No Surprises Act – draft bipartisan legislation focused on ending surprise billing – as soon as…
Leaders of the House Energy & Commerce Committee Health Subcommittee may move to mark up the No Surprises Act – draft bipartisan legislation focused on ending surprise billing – as soon as Subcommittee members return from the Independence Day recess the week of July 8.
When the federal government and America’s hospitals and health systems work together, we can make a real difference for patients.