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.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Hospital Price Transparency final rule goes into effect on Jan. 1, 2021. The AHA and three other national organizations sued the federal government challenging the final rule. The case is pending in a federal appeals court.
The AHA provided a statement to the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health today for a hearing titled “Lowering Health Care Costs for All Americans: Examining Policies to Increase Health Care Transparency.”
The AHA is committed to working with the Subcommittee on additional price transparency concepts, including those vetted by our Price Transparency Task Force.
The House Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health will host a legislative hearing, “Lowering Health Care Costs for All Americans: Examining Policies to Increase Health Care Transparency,” on Wednesday, June 10, at 10:15 a.m. ET.
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