The investigators stated: “Greater price transparency, specifically through better pricing information available to patients on the Internet, may improve affordability via lower and more uniform prices…. This study found that only one-fifth of NCI-CCs are compliant with CMS rules and that...
In addition to analyzing the final rule applicable to hospitals and related rules to come, interested parties may also wish to monitor litigation relating to the movement toward price transparency. Specifically, the American Hospital Association (AHA), Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), ...
“A preponderance of issuers have automated consumer price transparency tools and are actively enhancing them based on consumer feedback and advancing technology,” AHIP wrote. “While we support increasing access to such tools and continuing to improve upon existing tools, we have ...
CMS Proposes Rules to Promote Efficiency, Transparency and Burden ReductionLeslie Demaree Goldsmith
Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released afinal ruleimposing new price transparency requirements on hospitals, including online posting of negotiated rates for all services. In addition, CMS, in conjunction with the Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS), Labor, an...
The OPPS and ASC proposals focus on expanding access to behavioral health services through coverage of Intensive Outpatient Program Services—an intermediate level of behavioral healthcare—and provide more hospital price transparency. Key initiatives under the PFS for CY 2024 also reflect the Biden...
Hospital Price Transparency Toimprove price transparency, CMS is finalizing standard charge display requirements and enforcement provisions outlined in the CFR. See thefact sheet for hospital transparencyon the CMS website. Rural Emergency Hospitals (REH) and Payment of IHS and Tribal Facilities ...
CMS also finalized several changes regarding price transparency, including a requirement that hospitals make cost data publicly available in a more standardized manner. The rule also finalizes provisions from the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023, creating a new benefit category for intensive ...
Hospital Price Transparency As we had discussed in a priorclient alertaddressing the price transparency provisions in the OPPS Proposed Rule, CMS had proposed to significantly increase financial penalties on hospitals for noncompliance with CMS’s price transparency rules (...
CMS Data Interoperability Rules The Interoperability and Patient Access final rule (CMS-9115-F) delivers on the Administration’s promise to put patients first, giving them access to their health information when they need it most and in a way they can best use it. As part of the Trump Admi...