Healthcare Innovation April 26, 2019
Mark Hagland

An analysis published last week in Health Affairs by a team of healthcare policy analysts has shed light on how HHS might rework its failed mandate on hospital price reporting

Could the new-ish HHS (Department of Health and Human Services) mandate requiring Medicare-participating hospitals to post prices, have turned out any worse? Probably not. Let’s be honest: the rule published last August, and which went into effect on January 1, requiring acute-care hospitals to post their prices publicly, has turned out to be rather a disaster. And someone really could have predicted that from the start.

But now, a team of healthcare policy researchers has taken the time and effort to analyze the price-reporting rule and look at exactly what’s...

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