CMS call Dec. 10 on health care price transparency rules

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will host a Dec. 10 call on its final rule requiring hospitals to disclose payer-specific negotiated rates, and its proposed rule imposing new requirements on private insurers in the individual and group markets to publicly disclose negotiated rates and out-of-network allowed amounts. The AHA joined by three other national organizations representing hospitals and health systems yesterday sued the federal government in federal district court, challenging the final hospital rule.