Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 117: Chris Severn, Co-Founder & CEO, Turquoise Health
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 115: Dr. Michael Havig, CEO, HealthMe
HealthLaw HotSpot - A Look at Alternative Reimbursement Models in Value-Based Care
Make sure you’re providing good faith estimates to uninsured & self-pay patients - Under the No Surprises Act, healthcare providers are required to offer Good Faith Estimates (GFEs) to self-pay and uninsured patients...more
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released new Updated Hospital Price Transparency Guidance (Guidance) to “strengthen the Hospital Price Transparency requirements, requiring hospitals to post the actual...more
On May 22, 2025, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) took a series of actions to promote enhanced price transparency compliance by hospitals and identify challenges thereto, in order to inform future price...more
On February 25, 2025, President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order titled “Making America Healthy Again by Empowering Patients with Clear, Accurate, and Actionable Healthcare Pricing Information” (the “2025 Order”)...more
Two bills are moving in the United States House of Representatives that have implications for hospitals and health systems, with material changes proposed regarding pricing transparency requirements, identification and...more
States remain at the forefront of legislative efforts on a range of issues relating to drug pricing, such as increasing price transparency, capping out-of-pocket costs for insulin, and limiting certain PBM practices. These...more
A new federal hospital price transparency rule that took effect on January 1, 2021, requires hospitals to post all prices for services online in an easily accessible format. However, a report recently released by...more
Today, the Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS), Labor, and Treasury (the Departments) published an interim final rule (the Interim Final Rule) implementing certain provisions of the No Surprises Act,[1] which aims...more
As if hospitals don’t have enough challenges to deal with in caring for patients with COVID-19 and diverting resources to manage the COVID-19 public health emergency, they also need to make sure they comply with the new...more
The Trump administration’s hospital price transparency rule went into effect on January 1, 2021, after it was upheld by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in a December 2020 decision....more
As the hospital price transparency rule effective date approaches, the Administration has finalized new price transparency requirements for health plans and insurance issuers, as well as a requirement for COVID-19 test...more
Effective on January 1, 2021, the Price Transparency Rule (the “Rule”) requires all hospitals operating within the United States to make public a list of their standard charges for items and services via the Internet in a...more
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) recently issued a final rule requiring hospitals to publicly disclose their rates, including negotiated rates with third-party payors regardless of product line, by January...more
Federal executive agencies recently published two rules, one final and one proposed, aimed at publicizing the various costs associated with health care. A final rule, promulgated by the Department of Health and Human Services...more
On November 15, 2019, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized a rule requiring hospitals to make public a list of standard charges for items and services provided by such hospitals (the Rule). (The...more
The Trump Administration deserves credit for doing something right on hospital prices — but with what likely will be ineffective results....more
On July 29, 2019, CMS released its proposed outpatient prospective payment system (“OPPS”) rule outlining a variety of changes it may implement for calendar year 2020. One proposal that has inspired immediate reactions from...more
On June 24, 2019, President Trump signed a long-awaited executive order that he said would "fundamentally" change the healthcare market. The order builds upon current regulations that require hospitals to make available a...more