Cynthia Fisher

Mar 27, 2024 | healthaffairs.org | Jonathan Wolfson |Josh Archambault |Christopher Whaley |Cynthia Fisher |Ge Bai

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront series, Provider Prices in the Commercial Sector, featuring analysis and discussion of physician, hospital, and other health care provider prices in the private-sector markets and their contribution to overall spending therein. Additional articles will be published throughout 2023. Readers are encouraged to review the Call for Submissions for this series. We are grateful to Arnold Ventures for their support of this work.

Sep 15, 2023 | medcitynews.com | Cynthia Fisher

A recent Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposal weakens a federal hospital price transparency rule that took effect in January 2021 by entrenching and expanding hospitals’ use of cost estimates instead of actual prices. The 2024 Outpatient Prospective Payment System proposal fails to close a loophole in the price transparency rule that allows hospital estimates. It also expands their use by requiring them for hospital price disclosures displayed as algorithms or formulas.

Sep 15, 2023 | amac.us | Cynthia Fisher

A recent Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposal weakens a federal hospital price transparency rule that took effect in January 2021 by entrenching and expanding hospitals’ use of cost estimates instead of actual prices. The 2024 Outpatient Prospective Payment System proposal fails to close a loophole in the price transparency rule that allows hospital estimates. It also expands their use by requiring them for hospital price disclosures displayed as algorithms or formulas.

Apr 12, 2023 | fortune.com | Cynthia Fisher

The predatory American healthcare system is about to encounter new prey in the form of millions of families thrown off Medicaid rolls. Medicaid participation has swelled by approximately 30% to nearly 100 million Americans due to the March 2020 COVID-19 federal relief package that prevented states from kicking ineligible recipients off the program. On Mar. 31, that coverage protection came to an end.

Apr 12, 2023 | iqfin.net | Cynthia Fisher

Less than one in four hospitals is following price transparency rules, according to PatientRightsAdvocate.org.