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 letter urging HHS to exercise enforcement discretion with respect to the hospital price transparency rule.
A federal appeals court today ruled against AHA鈥檚 legal challenge to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services鈥 (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鈥 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 鈥渟tay the鈥
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鈥
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 & Medicaid Services (CMS) to mean privately negotiated rates with insurers, gross charges (a.k.a., 鈥渓ist prices鈥) and鈥
Hospitals are committed to providing patients meaningful information about their out-of-pocket costs. CMS鈥 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鈥
Hospitals鈥 Emergency Motion for Stay Re: Disclosure of Negotiated Rates
AHA letter requesting the Biden Administration exercise enforcement discretion with respect to compliance with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services鈥 hospital price transparency final rule requiring hospitals to make public, effective Jan. 1, 2021, all of the rates they negotiate with鈥
The AHA today filed a motion asking the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to stay the price transparency rule until the new administration has the opportunity to review and revise it and because implementing it would divert essential personnel from caring for a huge influx of鈥