RevCycle Intelligence February 26, 2020
An updated report shows that more states are implementing price transparency and other laws to protect provider competition in the face of rapid consolidation.
All states have anti-trust statutes in place to preserve provider competition in the face of rapid consolidation, but more state governments are relying on price transparency, health plan contracting rules, and other laws to ensure provider market power does not lead to higher costs, according to a new report.
Catalyst for Payment Reform (CPR) published this week an update to its 2014 report on state policies on provider market power published in conjunction with the National Academy of Social Insurance.
Using the Database of State Laws Impacting Healthcare Cost and Quality, jointly developed by CPR and...