Transparency rule could come this month, White House executive says

HFMA November 8, 2019
Rich Daly

• The Trump administration is aiming to issue a new requirement this month for hospitals to disclose their health plan rates.
• A White House executive downplayed the rule’s unintended consequences.
• The administration expects Congress to enact legislation addressing surprise medical bills by the end of 2019.

The controversial regulatory requirement for hospitals to publicize rates privately negotiated with health plans will be released as soon as this month

Joseph Grogan, JD, assistant to the president and director of the Trump administration’s Domestic Policy Council, said Nov. 8 that the goal is to release in November a rule that hospitals make public a list of their standard charges, which the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services defined as both gross...

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