Op-ed: Let's be transparent about hospital price transparency
In an op-ed published today in Fierce Healthcare, AHA Senior Vice President of Public Policy Analysis and Development Ashley Thompson highlighted the significant progress hospitals are making in complying with the federal price transparency requirements. She also pushes back on the large amount of misinformation that has “come from third-party, self-appointed judges, often with little experience working in hospitals and a tenuous grasp of the rules that often directly conflict with the policy and technical requirements.”
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