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.
While hospitals and health systems have generally relied on financial advisors to help patients with inquiries about what they may pay for care, technological advances are enabling them to help patients find this information in new ways, particularly through online tools.
A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., heard oral argument in an appeal from the AHA and hospital groups to overturn a Department of Health and Human Services rule requiring hospitals to disclose their confidential privately negotiated charges with insurers.
The AHA Board of Trustees earlier this year recommended updating the AHA’s patient billing guidance to better align with how care is delivered and financed currently. Today, we are releasing updated, voluntary guidelines that represent the AHA’s expectations of what the hospital and health system…
Hospital Group Responds to Government’s Notice About Recent Guidance (Oct. 2, 2020)
Government Notifies Court of Recently Released Guidance on Negotiated Charges Rule Implementation (Oct. 1, 2020)
Government Responds to Hospital Group Letter on the Executive Order (Oct. 1, 2020)
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services launched a website on the rule requiring hospitals to disclose their negotiated rates.
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RE: American Hospital Association, et al. v. Azar, No. 20-5193 (argument scheduled October 15, 2020)
Dear Mr. Langer:
The recent Department of Health and Human…
September 25, 2020
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