DOTmed August 1, 2023
A new bill introduced by U.S. Representative Mike Carey (R.-OH) that would require providers to disclose pricing for medical imaging services has attracted the ire of the American College of Radiology, which says that it “prioritizes price over quality.”
Under the Imaging Services Price Transparency Act, which was introduced on July 25, hospitals and healthcare systems would have to make public the cost of X-ray, MR, and CT scans. The bill is part of the Ways and Means Committee’s Health Care Price Transparency Act, which calls for codifying certain parts of the Hospital Price Transparency Rule that went into effect in early 2021. These include requiring hospitals to publish machine-readable files of standard charges and providing a list of at...
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