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 Trump administration is considering having health care providers, including hospitals, publicly disclose the negotiated prices they charge insurance companies for services.
The last thing a patient should worry about in a health crisis is an unanticipated medical bill that unintentionally impacts their out-of-pocket costs 鈥 and undermines the trust and confidence that patients have in their caregivers.
The authors of a new study on hospital and physician prices 鈥渦se limited data to draw broad conclusions,鈥 writes AHA Executive Vice President Tom Nickels in the AHA Stat blog.
The AHA today voiced support for a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services鈥 proposal to require drug pricing transparency in direct-to-consumer television advertisements and encouraged the agency to 鈥渞ein in skyrocketing drug prices鈥 for patients and the providers who serve them.
On Jan. 1, 2019, new price transparency requirements for hospitals will go into effect.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will discuss its updated price transparency guidelines for hospitals during a Nov. 13 Open Door Forum.
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The AHA believes patients and their families should be protected from the financial burdens of unexpected medical bills. Health insurance and health care billing are complex, and it can be difficult for patients to understand their coverage and obligations. Although insurers are in the best鈥
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