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.
AHA provides specific feedback to the Senate Bipartisan Working Group on the Stopping the Outrageous Practice (STOP) of Surprise Bills Act of 2019
(S. 1531).
This chart provides an in-depth comparison of the major provisions of three bills pending before Congress.
A quick look at the state of play on surprise billing legislation moving through Congress,.
AHA talking points on surprise medical billing and the major provisions of three bills pending before Congress.
An analysis by Monica Noether and Ben Stearns of Charles River Associates of White, Chapin and Christopher Whaley, “Prices Paid to Hospitals by Private Health Plans Are High Relative to Medicare and Vary Widely: Findings from an Employer-Led Transparency Initiative”.
The AHA today submitted comments to the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on their bipartisan discussion draft legislation, the Lower Health Care Costs Act of 2019. The cost – and affordability – of health care in America affects all stakeholders, including patients and their…
AHA's comment on HHS' Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s proposed rule on interoperability, information blocking and the ONC Health IT Certification Program.
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) multifaceted proposed rule to promote electronic health information.
Over the past year, there has been considerable public and policymaker focus on the issues of surprise medical billing and health care price transparency. The AHA supports protecting patients from surprise medical bills and improving patient access to meaningful pricing information. The following…
A recent article, HHS Rule Could Disrupt How Hospitals and Insurers Set Rates, discusses a proposal by the Trump administration that could require hospitals and providers to publicly disclose the payer-negotiated rates charged for hea