Becker's Healthcare September 20, 2023
Jakob Emerson

Payers have been subject to price transparency regulations since July 2022, but no comprehensive action or research has taken place to assess compliance, according to research published Sept. 19 in Health Affairs.

The two authors are from the Hilltop Institute, a nonpartisan research organization at the University of Maryland in Baltimore. They wrote that compliance research occurred within months of hospitals facing a similar rule that took effect in 2021, but insurers have not faced the same scrutiny.

“We posit that this lack of compliance monitoring is not for lack of interest but rather because of the complexity of the landscape to which the regulation applies,” they wrote.

Six key takeaways:

1. One of the first issues with assessing payer...

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