Hospital price transparency helps Americans know the cost of a hospital item or service before receiving it. Starting January 1, 2021, each hospital operating in the United States will be required to provide clear, accessible pricing information online about the items and services they provide in two ways:| www.cms.gov
Summary: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) seeks public input to identify challenges and improve compliance and enforcement processes related to the transparent reporting of complete, accurate, and meaningful pricing data by hospitals. CMS seeks responses to the “Questions for Public Comment” section of this Request for Information (RFI). CMS may use the responses collected to inform the development and implementation of future policies and processes, among other purposes.| www.cms.gov
Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Treasury announce move to strengthen healthcare price transparencyTrump administration issues request for information, guidance to expand access to real prices The departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and the Treasury took action today to advance President Trump’s directive to ensure Americans have clear, accurate, and actionable information about healthcare prices.| www.cms.gov
While the health plan price transparency data available under current guidance and enforcement have proven challenging to access and use, a renewed focus under the Trump administration aims to improve Transparency in Coverage (TiC) data. In this blog, CHIR experts Stacey Pogue and Nadia Stovicek pre| CHIRblog
The Transparency in Coverage (TiC) rule aimed to make healthcare prices easily comparable, but the reported data may pose many barriers to effective analysis.| Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker
CY 2024 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) Policy Changes: Hospital Price Transparency (CMS-1786-FC)| www.cms.gov
