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Fact Sheet: Hospital Price Transparency

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. Most hospitals use cost estimate tools to provide patient-specific price information because every course of care is unique.
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AHA responds to CMS request for information on hospital price transparency accuracy, completeness

The AHA yesterday responded to a request for information from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on price transparency policy, specifically the accuracy and completeness of hospitals’ machine-readable files.
Toolkits/Methodology
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Fact Sheet: Price Estimator Tools

Price estimator tools are currently patients’ best and most consumer-friendly source of information. They
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Member Non-Fed

Departments Release New Guidance, RFIs on Hospital and Insurer Price Transparency

The Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and the Treasury last week 
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CMS releases new guidance, RFIs on hospital and insurer price transparency

The Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and the Treasury May 22 released several new guidance documents and requests for information on price transparency, following the February executive order on the same subject.
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CMS releases agenda for new administrator Mehmet Oz 

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services April 10 released key priorities for new CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz, who was confirmed to the position April 3.
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Advocacy Issue: Transparency and Competition

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.
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Administration issues executive order on hospital price transparency

The White House yesterday issued an
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Member

Administration Releases Executive Order on Health Care Price Transparency

The White House Feb. 25 issued an executive order that directs the Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and Treasury to improve upon and increase enforcement of the hospital and insurer price transparency requirements in the Hospital Price Transparency and Transparency in Coverage regulations.