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 today responded to a new RAND report examining policy options to reduce hospital prices paid by private health plans.
Hospitals are doing their part to contain costs, as evidenced by the 1.9% increase in price growth per year on average over the last decade, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The AHA urged the Department of Health and Human Services to exercise enforcement discretion with the hospital price transparency rule that took effect Jan. 1.
AHA letter urging HHS to exercise enforcement discretion with respect to the hospital price transparency rule.
A federal appeals court today ruled against AHA’s legal challenge to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) final rule mandating that hospitals disclose their privately negotiated charges with commercial health insurers. The rule goes into effect Jan. 1, 2021.
Melinda Hatton
Defendant respectfully opposes plaintiffs’ emergency motion for stay. Without having moved first in the district court (contra Fed. R. App. P. 8(a)), and less than two weeks before the hospital-price-transparency rule is to take effect on January 1, 2021, plaintiffs ask that this Court “stay the…
ARGUED AND SUBMITTED ON OCTOBER 15, 2020
In the United States Court of Appeals
for the District of Columbia Circuit
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No. 20-5193
THE AMERICAN HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION, ET AL.,
APPELLANTS
v.
ALEX M. AZAR II,
SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES,
APPELLEE
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REPLY IN SUPPORT OF…
The hospital price transparency rule takes effect Jan. 1, 2021, requiring hospitals and health systems to disclose all standard charges, as defined by the Centers for Medicare…
Hospitals are committed to providing patients meaningful information about their out-of-pocket costs. CMS’ hospital price transparency rule goes into effect on Jan. 1, 2021. The AHA continues to oppose the requirement to publicly list privately negotiated rates or amounts that a hospital has…