Highlights from the past few weeks' Healthcare Transparency News, Studies, and Articles:
AMA’s New Policies support Data and Price Transparency
[By: , State of Reform]
“As part of its ongoing efforts to ensure greater health care transparency that can improve health outcomes, increase the value of health care spending and strengthen physician-patient relationships, the American Medical Association (AMA) at its annual meeting today passed two new policies that address the growing interest in health care data and price transparency.”
Advancing transparency in healthcare: A call to action
[By: Former Sens. Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) and Tom Daschle (D-S.D.), The Hill]
“Greater transparency and access to information about the prices and quality of health care would be beneficial to consumers, providers, policymakers, and stakeholders alike. To achieve the Triple Aim of better population health, an improved health care system, and a lower rate of cost and spending growth, we must take the blindfold off.
We think the following steps are necessary to spur the movement to greater transparency…”
Medicare sheds new light on hospital, physician pay
[By: Bob Herman, Modern Healthcare]
“The federal government continues to roll out Medicare claims and payment information in an effort to make the opaque U.S. healthcare system more accountable.”
Mithun Highlights Cost Ignorance for Wellmark
[By: Erik Oster, AdWeek AgencySpy]
“Minneapolis agency Mithun launched a new campaign for Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield showcasing the myWellmark Health Care Cost Estimator, which gives customers a health care estimate online.”
Fitch Ratings Study: Hospital Price Transparency: Impacts to Providers and Consumers
[By: Business Wire]
“Fitch Ratings believes that growing demand for price transparency within the not-for-profit hospital sector has the potential to disrupt the current business model, according to a new Fitch Ratings report.”
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