Fierce Health Payers January 17, 2020
A new analysis found that spending for shoppable hospital services, which are the subject of a new transparency rule, made up a small amount of Medicare spending in 2017.
The shoppable healthcare services that are the subject of the Trump administration’s controversial hospital transparency rule made up a small amount of spending from employer health plans in 2017, a new analysis finds.
The analysis released Thursday from the Health Care Cost Institute questions the impact of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ final rule to require hospitals to post the payer-negotiated rate for 300 shoppable services.
CMS calls a shoppable service as anything that can be scheduled by a patient in advance. The goal of the rule is...