{"id":175687,"date":"2020-12-24T19:16:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-25T00:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/12\/24\/yeah-right\/"},"modified":"2020-12-24T19:16:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-25T00:16:00","slug":"yeah-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/12\/24\/yeah-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Yeah, Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The American Hospital Association <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthcaredive.com\/news\/aha-seeks-emergency-relief-to-block-enforcement-of-price-transparency-rule\/592665\/\">wants the Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services (CMS) to suspend its price transparency regulations<\/a>,&nbsp; because it&#8217;s too burdensome.<\/p>\n<p>Bullsh%$.<\/p>\n<p>They just don&#8217;t want to be held to account for their deliberately opaque pricing structures and policies.<\/p>\n<p>If there is one thing that hospitals get right, it&#8217;s how to charge people as much as is humanly possible:<\/p>\n<div>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">Dive Brief: <\/span><\/h3>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">The American Hospital Association filed an emergency motion for a stay, which means it&#8217;s seeking to stop the government from enforcing its price transparency rule, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthcaredive.com\/news\/hospitals-price-transparency-2021-compliance\/591770\/\">set to go into effect Jan. 1<\/a> if the law is not struck down in federal appeals court.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">The AHA is still awaiting a final verdict from the court after the three-judge panel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthcaredive.com\/news\/baffled-judges-price-transparency-aha-hospital-x-ray-price-unknowable\/587116\/\">heard oral arguments<\/a> in October. In the meantime, the group is hoping to bar the law from going into effect as hospitals are overwhelmed by the rollout of the coronavirus vaccines and record-high COVID-19 caseloads.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">Emergency relief is warranted, AHA said, because CMS will start conducting audits of price transparency compliance and those not following the regulations face financial penalties, the parties said in a Monday filing. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">Dive Insight: <\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">A CMS <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cms.gov\/outreach-and-educationoutreachffsprovpartprogprovider-partnership-email-archive\/2020-12-18-mlnc-se\">bulletin from last Friday<\/a> led AHA to file the emergency request with the federal appeals court. The notice informed providers that CMS is prepared to &#8220;audit a sample of hospitals for compliance starting in January&#8221; and those providers found in violation will face civil monetary penalties. <\/p>\n<p>AHA argues that halting the policy is necessary given the &#8220;exceptional circumstances&#8221; the industry faces.  <\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026 <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the hospital lobby is still waiting on the ruling from federal appeals court. But after listening to oral arguments back in October, industry experts don&#8217;t feel AHA will prevail in the case, which is seeking to knock down the law.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthcaredive.com\/news\/baffled-judges-price-transparency-aha-hospital-x-ray-price-unknowable\/587116\/\">The three-judge panel <\/a>seemed highly skeptical that it is unlawful for the government to compel providers to publish the negotiated rates they reach with insurers for services provided to patients.  <br \/><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The hospitals can literally turn over pricing data at the press of a button, but the hospitals want to continue to profit over secrecy, and they are hoping to put one over on the incoming administration.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Hospital Association wants the Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services (CMS) to suspend its price transparency regulations,&nbsp; because it&#8217;s too burdensome. Bullsh%$. They just don&#8217;t want to be held to account for their deliberately opaque pricing structures and policies. If there is one thing that hospitals get right, it&#8217;s how to charge people &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[368,364,456,407,460,437],"class_list":["post-175687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-corruption","tag-evil","tag-finance","tag-justice","tag-public-health","tag-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175687"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}