We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 6/21 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by John Lynn (@techguy) from @hcittoday on the topic “Price Transparency”
Most of you probably know about the CMS hospital price transparency rule that hospitals must post their pricing in a “comprehensive machine-readable file with all their items and services” and that it must be displayed in a consumer-friendly format. Directionally, as consumers I think we all love this rule. Although, many have noted that hospital billing is much more complex than what’s required and so the rule doesn’t provide a ton of value to patients.
Regardless of it’s worth to patients, sharing your pricing is a rule and required by law. We just had the first hospital transparency fines levied for $1.1 million. Those are some real teeth behind the regulation.
For this week’s chat, let’s dive into this rule and the penalties that were levied. Do you like the rule? Are these penalties just the start? What would you do to make this rule better?
Join us for this week’s #HITsm chat where we’ll be discussing the following topics.
Topics for this week’s #HITsm Chat:
T1: What are your thoughts and feelings on the price transparency rule? Good? Bad? Useful? Useless? #HITsm
T2: Why do you think many hospitals aren’t complying with the rule? #HITsm
T3: The first 2 fines for non-compliance were levied. Is this the start of a flood of fines or is this an isolated incident? #HITsm
T4: What would you do to make the price transparency rule better? #HITsm
T5: Will we ever have true price transparency in healthcare? #HITsm
Bonus: What’s your favorite (or is it least favorite since they’re brutal) story about lack of price transparency? #HITsm
Upcoming #HITsm Chat Schedule
7/1 – TBD
Hosted by TBD
7/8 – Technology and Advanced, Team-based Primary Care
Hosted by Christopher Crow, MD (@catalysthg)
7/15 – Social Determinants of Health (SDoH)
Hosted by Dr. Melissa Urrea from @naviHealthPAC
7/22 – Access to Care and Digital Health/Health IT
Hosted by Derek Streat (@dexcare)
We look forward to learning from the #HITsm community! As always, let us know if you’d like to host a future #HITsm chat or if you know someone you think we should invite to host.
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