In Health Affairs, researcher David Muhlestein highlights the challenges of analyzing payer price data and provides recommendations to unlock this data’s full potential. This research comes on the heels of a Presidential executive order directing the Secretaries of Treasury, Labor, and Health and Human Services to rapidly issue updated regulatory guidance to strengthen price transparency.
Health Affairs Forefront
Center Responds to CMS Proposed Rule on Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System
The Center offers recommendations to strengthen hospital price transparency, advance site-neutral payment policy, and improve Medicare Advantage data reporting.
Center Responds to RFI on Hospital Price Transparency
The Center offers recommendations to strengthen hospital pricing transparency, establish clearer compliance standards, and enhance market competition through better healthcare data.
Insights from a Discussion of Transparency in Coverage Data
The Center convened experts at AcademyHealth’s ARM to discuss how they are using TiC data to understand healthcare pricing and inform purchasing and policy.