GAO|11|791 Health Care Price Transparency

Meaningful Price Information Is Difficult for Consumers to Obtain ...

Health Care Price Transparency: Meaningful Price Information Is Difficult for Consumers to Obtain Prior to Receiving Care ... GAO-11-791 Published ...

GAO-11-791, Health Care Price Transparency

United States Government Accountability Office: GAO: Health Care Price Transparency: Meaningful Price Information Is Difficult for Consumers to Obtain Prior ...

CMS Needs More Information on Hospital Pricing Data ...

Health Care Transparency: CMS Needs More Information on Hospital Pricing Data Completeness and Accuracy. GAO-25-106995 Published: Oct 02, 2024.

Transparency Push: New GAO Report on Hospital Pricing

CMS Administrator evaluate the completeness and accuracy of hospital price transparency machine-readable files to ensure they adequately support ...

Health Care Price Transparency: Can It Promote High-Value Care?

Some consumer advocates, employers, and health plans are pushing for greater reporting of the prices of health care services as a way to encourage consumers to ...

CMS should take stronger stance on hospital pricing compliance: GAO

The CMS fails to check hospitals' pricing data for accuracy and completeness, raising questions about whether the data can be used as intended to help payers ...

GAO wants CMS to take deeper look at hospital price transparency

“Further, some stakeholders also noted that it will take health plans and employers time to figure out how to effectively use the pricing data ...

GAO-25-106995, HEALTH CARE TRANSPARENCY: CMS Needs ...

CMS updated price transparency requirements for 2024 to address some of the challenges with using hospital pricing data. For example, CMS ...

Hospital Price Transparency Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Section 1001 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Pub. L. 111-148), as amended by Section 10101 of the Health Care and Education ...

Chair Rodgers: Even More Crucial for Congress to Pass Price ...

The House Passed a Long-Needed Health Care Price Transparency Measure · Bipartisan Lower Costs, More Transparency Act Saves Seniors Money, ...

Transparency in Coverage - Federal Register

The final rules set forth requirements for group health plans and health insurance issuers in the individual and group markets to disclose ...

Necessity for and Limitations of Price Transparency in American ...

Price transparency is an ethical and policy imperative for American health care. More transparent pricing would allow patients and families to make better ...

Not All Selected Hospitals Complied With the Hospital Price ...

CMS believes that one reason for this upward spending trajectory is the lack of transparency in health care pricing, and that improving ...

Hospital price transparency enforcement should look at pricing data ...

The GAO said CMS should review the completeness and accuracy of the pricing information in hospitals' machine-readable files.

GAO: CMS cannot assure hospital pricing data is accurate or complete

Consequently, the GAO recommends that CMS assess whether hospital price transparency data are “sufficiently complete and accurate to be usable” ...

GAO: CMS failed to ensure price transparency data accuracy

In 2021, CMS began requiring hospitals to publicly post their prices for certain shoppable services on their websites. The agency intended the ...

117th Congress (2021-2022): Health Care PRICE Transparency Act

To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for hospital and insurer price transparency. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. May 7, 2021. Mr. Davidson ( ...

GAO Releases Report Urging Improved Efforts on Healthcare Price ...

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) today released a report on healthcare price transparency ... hospital pricing data completeness and ...

Podcast on Health Care Price Transparency | U.S. GAO

As consumers pay for a growing proportion of their health care, they have an increased need for information on cost and quality before ...

Nearly 90 Percent of Americans Support Health Care Price ...

3561), which would require hospitals and health insurance companies to post the true prices of their medical services. Representatives Cathy ...