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Trump releases rule forcing hospitals and insurers to disclose negotiated rates or face fines

The Trump administration released a plan Friday that would force hospitals and insurers to disclose their negotiate rates or risk being fined.

The administration already requires hospitals to publish list prices, sometimes referred to as “sticker prices.” That doesn’t always reflect what someone with insurance might pay. The rule presented Friday, expected to be enacted in 2021, will go further by requiring hospitals to also post the prices paid by various insurance plans.

President Donald Trump is expected to discuss his transparency rules for hospitals and insurers Friday afternoon in a Roosevelt Room event.

The rule begins a “new era” in price transparency in health care, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar told reporters on a conference call. “This shadowy system has to change. The patient has to be in control.”

Hospitals will need to post their standard charges for services, including the negotiated rates with insurers and the discounted price a hospital is willing to accept directly from a patient if paid in cash, administration officials said. Hospitals will also need to publish the same information for at least 300 “shoppable services,” such as X-rays or lab tests.

Matt Eyles, president and CEO of America’s Health Insurance Plans, said Friday that the group supports “clear, consistent and concise information that is customized to an individual’s circumstances.”

“Transparency should aid and support patient decision-making, should not undermine competitive negotiations that lower patients’ health care costs, and should put downward pressure on premiums for consumers and employers,” Eyles said.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/15/trump-r ... rates.html

mvscal wrote: ↑Sun Nov 17, 2019 12:33 am ...standard charges for services...

Shlomart Ben Yisrael wrote: ↑Sun Nov 17, 2019 12:52 am ...or you could live in a 88/Seater/EAP/ fantasy-land where there's a price tag on everything and everything's for sale...even culture and identity...

Shlomart Ben Yisrael wrote: ↑Sun Nov 17, 2019 12:48 am Imagine you lived in a country with clearly defined borders...
With a national identity...
And prosperity and security for it's citizens...
And fair wages for workers that aren't exploited by rootless cosmopolitan, globalist, neo-liberal parasites...

Imagine...

Shlomart Ben Yisrael wrote: ↑Sun Nov 17, 2019 12:52 amSeater/there's a price tag on everything

Softball Bat wrote: ↑Sun Nov 17, 2019 1:03 am

Shlomart Ben Yisrael wrote: ↑Sun Nov 17, 2019 12:52 amSeater/there's a price tag on everything

Ban Kierfag wrote: ↑Sun Nov 17, 2019 1:06 am

Softball Bat wrote: ↑Sun Nov 17, 2019 1:03 am

Shlomart Ben Yisrael wrote: ↑Sun Nov 17, 2019 12:52 amSeater/there's a price tag on everything

Twenty years and popturd still can't post a picture.

Shlomart Ben Yisrael wrote: ↑Sun Nov 17, 2019 12:48 am Imagine you lived in a country with clearly defined borders...
With a national identity...
And prosperity and security for it's citizens...
And fair wages for workers that aren't exploited by rootless cosmopolitan, globalist, neo-liberal parasites...

mvscal wrote: ↑Sun Nov 17, 2019 1:10 am

mvscal wrote: ↑Sun Nov 17, 2019 12:33 am That dirty motherfucker selling us out again!! Grrr. He makes me so angry!!

Shlomart Ben Yisrael wrote: ↑Sun Nov 17, 2019 12:41 am
You guys pay for medical care? Huh?
What's it like? Are you afraid to get sick? Does being afraid of getting sick make you sick?

EAP wrote: ↑Sun Nov 17, 2019 1:00 am

John was a dirty hippie maggot.
At least George was a Hare Krishna. I can live with that.
Paul was the whimsical one.
And Ringo was just an ugly hanger-on.

Shlomart Ben Yisrael wrote: ↑Sun Nov 17, 2019 4:21 pm ok boomer

Shlomart Ben Yisrael wrote: ↑Sun Nov 17, 2019 4:06 pm Why not go ahead and log in as your IB troll now?[/quote}


...and thus he did.

Innocent Bystander wrote: ↑Sun Nov 17, 2019 4:26 pm

EAP wrote: ↑Sun Nov 17, 2019 1:00 am

John was a dirty hippie maggot.
At least George was a Hare Krishna. I can live with that.
Paul was the whimsical one.
And Ringo was just an ugly hanger-on.

You just called Cynthia, Kevin Bacon? Or was that a mod rewrite? She's more ' The Way We Were'.

Cynthia was John's 'Waitey Katie'. John wore the pants and wielded the belt/fists. Then John met Yoko. Like most of those, Yoko wore the pants and wielded the power.

What within the subtlety of George's conversion versus John's appropriations offends you most? if you can live with George, but not John?