Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 117: Chris Severn, Co-Founder & CEO, Turquoise Health
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Last week, CMS published new guidance and issued a Request for Information on the Hospital Price Transparency Rule in response to President Trump’s February 25, 2025 Executive Order titled, “Making America Healthy Again by...more
On February 25, 2025, President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order titled “Making America Healthy Again by Empowering Patients with Clear, Accurate, and Actionable Healthcare Pricing Information” (the 2025 Order). The...more
On Tuesday, February 25, 2025, President Trump signed an Executive Order aimed at promoting healthcare price transparency (the 2025 Executive Order).1 The 2025 Executive Order mandates that certain federal departments must...more
In November 2024, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) published the results of its audit assessing hospital compliance with the federal Hospital Price Transparency Rule (HPT Rule)....more
Earlier this month, OIG’s Office of Audit Services released its latest report on providers’ compliance with the Hospital Price Transparency Rule (the HPT Rule). The HPT Rule requires hospitals to make public (1) a...more
On April 26, 2023, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) released a fact sheet on Hospital Price Transparency Enforcement Updates (the “Fact Sheet”) under the Hospital Price Transparency Rule (the “Rule”)....more
What You Need to Know- •The Hospital Price Transparency Rule requires hospitals to annually make public a comprehensive list of the hospital’s standard charges for provided items and services, including a display of charges...more
On November 2, 2021, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that it will implement increased penalties for hospitals that do not comply with the Hospital Price Transparency Rule, effective January 1,...more
On July 19, 2021, President Joseph R. Biden’s administration released a proposed rule that would increase penalties for hospitals that do not comply with the Hospital Price Transparency Rule, effective January 1, 2022. The...more
On April 27, 2021, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) released the Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (“IPPS”) and Long-Term Care Hospital (“LTCH”) unpublished Proposed Rule for 2022 (“Proposed...more
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Hospital Price Transparency Rule went into effect on January 1, 2021, but whether it will succeed in making prices readily comparable for healthcare consumers remains to be...more
By letter dated April 13, 2021 (Letter), the Democrat and Republican leadership of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and its Subcommittee on Health, wrote United States Health and Human Services Secretary, Xavier...more
Report on Medicare Compliance 29, no. 45 (December 21, 2020) - CMS said Dec. 18 it will audit a sample of hospitals for compliance with price transparency requirements, which take effect Jan. 1, according to MLN Connects....more
Report on Medicare Compliance 29, no. 24 (June 29, 2020) - CMS said June 23 it has created an Office of Burden Reduction and Health Informatics to “unify the agency’s efforts to reduce regulatory and administrative burden...more
Compliance Today (January 2020) - A Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Fact Sheet issued November 15, 2019, “finalized policies that follow directives in President Trump’s Executive Order, entitled ‘Improving...more