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 comments July 21 to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions on price transparency, nursing workforce and rural obstetrics legislation that the committee considered during a markup held July 22.
The American Hospital Association shares the hospital field’s comments on legislation being marked up by the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on July 22.
The AHA provided comments to the House Energy and Commerce Committee July 21 on two price transparency bills the full committee considered during a markup. The AHA said that the inclusion of specific posting requirements in the Lower Costs, More Transparency Act (H.R.
The American Hospital Association shares the hospital field’s comments on legislation being marked up by the Energy and Committee on July 21.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) July 7 published its calendar year (CY) 2027 outpatient prospective payment system (PPS) and ambulatory surgical center (ASC) proposed rule.
The AHA provided a statement to the House Ways and Means Committee for a markup July 15 on various pieces of health legislation. The AHA offered feedback on the Health Care Price Certainty for All Americans Act, which would codify and expand hospital price transparency requirements.
The American Hospital Association (AHA) shares our review of the discussion draft of the Patients Deserve Price Tags Act (PDPTA) (S. 2355) released on June 25.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) July 2 issued a proposed rule that would increase Medicare hospital outpatient prospective payment system (PPS) rates by a net 2.4% in calendar year (CY) 2027 compared to CY 2026.
AHA's comment on H.R. 9504, the “Tax-Exempt Hospital Transparency Act.”