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The federal price transparency rules require hospitals and health plans to provide both a consumer-facing price lookup tool and machine-readable files with all their prices.
Expert perspective
Stacey Pogue
May 4
A proposed rule from HHS would add non-price contextual data to transparency files, such as plan enrollment numbers and which providers have billed for a specific service.
Expert perspective
Stacey Pogue
May 4
Health plans are estimated to post approximately one trillion prices per month in machine-readable files as part of the Transparency in Coverage rule.
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Stacey Pogue
May 4
Data users have requested that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) create a central repository for links to all health plan price transparency files to improve accessibility.
Expert perspective
Stacey Pogue
May 4
The Trump administration implemented a rule for hospital price transparency and a separate rule for health plan price transparency, known as the Transparency in Coverage rule.
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Stacey Pogue
May 4
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released a proposed rule to address usability issues with health plan price transparency data files, with a comment period that ended in March 202...
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Stacey Pogue
May 4
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) estimates that removing clinically implausible "ghost codes" from price transparency files will reduce their size by 70%.
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Stacey Pogue
May 4
The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 included a provision for an "Advanced Explanation of Benefits" to give patients upfront cost disclosures, but this has not yet been implemented.
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Stacey Pogue
May 4
Insurers commenting on the proposed price transparency rule generally support streamlining efforts but oppose the requirement to add extra ancillary information to the data files.
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Stacey Pogue
May 4
Access to insights from Transparency in Coverage data is currently dominated by specialized data firms that can manage the high cost and complexity of ingesting and cleaning the massive datasets.
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Stacey Pogue
May 4
A proposed HHS rule would change the reporting frequency for health plan price transparency data from monthly to quarterly.
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Stacey Pogue
May 4
Employer-sponsored health plans provide coverage for approximately half of all working-age adults in the United States.
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Stacey Pogue
May 4
Data users, including employers and researchers, have commented that the proposed HHS price transparency rule needs to go further by addressing data accuracy issues and requiring more utilization data...
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Stacey Pogue
May 4
Insurers have requested a compliance timeline of 12 to 18 months after technical guidance is finalized for the new price transparency rule, which is longer than the proposed 12 months after the rule's...
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Stacey Pogue
May 4
The current proposed HHS rule on price transparency does not include any new provisions for compliance checks on health plans.
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Stacey Pogue
May 4
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