Modern Healthcare October 16, 2019
The Health Information Technology Advisory Committee may sharpen its focus on price transparency next year, members discussed Wednesday during the group’s monthly meeting.
Price transparency has proved a complicated topic. But it has come up several times this year, according to Carolyn Petersen, co-chair of HITAC and senior editor for Mayo Clinic’s health information website.
She suggested establishing a “new HITAC task force” on the issue. The committee could also formalize price transparency as a component of the group’s existing interoperability standards priorities task force.
This past spring, HITAC voted to nix price transparency requirements from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s information-blocking proposal, cautioning that tying price transparency to the rule would slow down its...
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