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.
Once again, Patient Rights Advocate has put out a report that blatantly misconstrues, ignores, and mischaracterizes hospitals鈥 compliance with federal price transparency regulations. The AHA has repeatedly debunked point-by-point Patient Rights Advocate鈥檚 intentionally misleading 鈥渞eports鈥 on price鈥
The House Education & Workforce Committee July 12 voted 39-0 to pass legislation (H.R. 4509) that would require off-campus hospital outpatient departments to obtain a separate unique health identifier and include it on all claims for services billed to commercial group health plans or their鈥
In a statement submitted to the House Education and Workforce Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions for a hearing today on competition and transparency in health care, AHA said mergers and acquisitions are important tools that some hospitals use to lower costs and鈥
AHA statement on legislative proposals that are to be considered before the Energy and Commerce Committee on May 24.
The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health May 17 considered a series of health care bills, including a number focused on provisions that would affect hospitals and health systems.
AHA shares hospital field鈥檚 comments on legislative proposals that are to be considered before the Energy & Commerce Health Subcommittee on May 17.
In a statement submitted to the House Ways and Means Committee for a鈥痟earing鈥疢ay 16 on health care price transparency, AHA recommended Congress and the Administration streamline existing hospital price transparency requirements to reduce potential patient confusion and unnecessary regulatory burden鈥
Hospitals and health systems are committed to empowering patients with all the information they need to live their healthiest lives. This includes ensuring they have access to accurate price information when seeking care.
Several House and Senate committees will hold hearings this week on a variety of issues that affect hospitals and health systems.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) yesterday released updated guidance on their process for monitoring and enforcing the Hospital Price Transparency rule.