fah hospital policy blog

Today, four national organizations representing hospitals and health systems sued the federal government, challenging last month’s contract disclosure rule from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

“This final regulation on hospital transparency fails to meet the definition of price transparency useful for patients. Instead, it will only result in patient overload of useless

information while distorting the competitive market for purchasing hospital care.”

This rule will introduce widespread confusion, accelerate anticompetitive behavior among health insurers, and stymie innovations in value-based care delivery.

The CMS proposed regulation on negotiated price transparency wholly misses the markon providing financial information Americans can actually use.