{"id":21049,"date":"2023-03-29T07:59:38","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T11:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=21049"},"modified":"2023-03-29T07:59:39","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T11:59:39","slug":"a-progress-check-on-hospital-price-transparency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=21049","title":{"rendered":"A Progress Check on Hospital Price Transparency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Michelle Andrews for <em>Kaiser Health News<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For decades, U.S. hospitals have generally stonewalled patients who wanted to know ahead of time how much their care would cost. Now that\u2019s changing \u2014 but there\u2019s a vigorous debate over what hospitals are disclosing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under a federal rule in effect since 2021, hospitals nationwide have been laboring to post a mountain of data online that spells out their prices for every service, drug, and item they provide, including the actual prices they\u2019ve negotiated with insurers and the amounts that cash-paying patients would be charged. They\u2019ve done so begrudgingly and only after losing a lawsuit that challenged the federal rule.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/article\/hospital-price-transparency-federal-rule-checkup-2023\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/article\/hospital-price-transparency-federal-rule-checkup-2023\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"78\" class=\"wp-image-899\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-390x205.png 390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>&nbsp;The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Michelle Andrews for Kaiser Health News) For decades, U.S. hospitals have generally stonewalled patients who wanted to know ahead<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,21,10,39],"tags":[80,238,462,214],"class_list":["post-21049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cms","category-health-care-finance","category-legislative-update","category-price-transparency","tag-cms","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-hospital-price-transparency","tag-price-transparency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21050,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21049\/revisions\/21050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}