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Blog explains ‘shortcomings’ of RAND 5.0 hospital pricing report
A blog expanding on AHA's initial response last week to the RAND Corporation's latest hospital pricing report notes, "The AHA has previously highlighted significant flaws with older versions of this report, and this latest iteration not only recycles but doubles down on those serious shortcomings — the health policy equivalent of Groundhog Day," write Aaron Wesolowski, AHA vice president of research strategy and policy communications, and John Allison, AHA senior associate director of health analytics.
RAND 5.0 – The Health Policy Equivalent of Groundhog Day
The RAND Corporation recently released the fifth iteration of its biannual hospital price report. The AHA highlights the significant flaws in this latest iteration.
AHA Statement on RAND 5.0 Hospital Pricing Study
In what is becoming an all too familiar pattern, the RAND Corporation’s latest hospital price report oversells and underwhelms. Their analysis — which despite much heralded data expansions — still represents less than 2% of overall hospital spending. This offers a skewed and incomplete picture of hospital spending.
AHA Member Advisory on Upcoming Release of Hospital Price Transparency Study
AHA expects the release of a new price transparency report next week. See AHA resources to prepare your organization’s response to the study findings.
Hospital Price Transparency Final Rule
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Hospital Price Transparency final rule goes into effect on Jan. 1, 2021. The AHA and three other national organizations sued the federal government challenging the final rule. The case is pending in a federal appeals court.
CMS releases tool to validate price transparency file compliance
CMS March 28 released an updated online validator tool that hospitals can use to test price transparency machine-readable files against the new format and data specifications going into effect on July 1, 2024, and Jan. 1, 2025.
Advocacy Issue: Transparency and Competition
Hospitals and health systems have made important progress in adopting federal price transparency requirements that require they both publicly post machine-readable files of a wide range of rate information and provide more consumer-friendly displays of pricing information for at least 300 shoppable services.
AHA Statement on “Health Care Spending in the United States: Unsustainable for Patients, Employers, and Taxpayers”
The AHA shares comments on the topic of national health expenditures before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health .
Fact Sheet: Price Estimator Tools
Price estimator tools are currently patients’ best and most consumer-friendly source of
information. They