Understanding Pricing Trends in a Changing Environment
Pricing data can help providers make more informed strategic decisions and build better relationships with their patients.
Hospitals Are Using Cost Reduction to Trim Patient Charges
The healthcare industry has undergone a major decrease in average annual charge growth. Hospitals at the lowest end of the charge growth spectrum are using cost reduction to slow the level of charge change.
Colorado Healthcare System Increases Price Transparency for Self-Pay Patients
SCL Health shows self-pay prices in two ways—an average for a specific service and the range of prices charged in the past year. This helps set realistic expectations when prices are above average based on varying factors.
Self-Pay Transparency in Colorado: What the Law Says
Colorado’s Transparency in Direct Pay Health Care Prices Act requires health facilities to publish online the self-pay prices of their 50 most-used DRG codes and the 25 most-used CPT codes.
Methodology Used to Identify Top Procedures Performed at Hospitals and Free-Standing Clinics
Recent research on hospital versus free-standing facility pricing used 2016 Medicare hospital OPPS data as its basis.
Competing with Freestanding Outpatient Centers—Where to Focus on Pricing
Price reductions should be included in pricing strategies to help hospitals better compete with these free-standing centers.
Can Maryland Hospital Price-Setting Serve as a National Model?
April 10—Hospitals may have reasons to support a shift to a global budget model like the one used in Maryland, some healthcare policy leaders say.
HFMA Comments on the Senate Transparency Initiative
HFMA provides comments to Senators to inform the bipartisan initiative to increase healthcare price and quality transparency, as described in a February 28, 2018, letter.
11 Metrics Reveal the Best Strategies For Cutting Outpatient Prices
A scoring methodology is the first step in evaluating outpatient service price reductions without sacrificing financial viability.
Healthcare Challenge Roundtable: Making Price Transparency More Effective
Although health plans may need to take the lead on the issue of price transparency because of their unsurpassed access to pricing data, sustainable solutions will involve significant input from stakeholders across the spectrum.