September 12, 2022
Payers
  • The National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Conditions released a playbook offering strategies for plan sponsors to harness newly-released price transparency and quality data as leverage to drive down prices. The tool pulls from multiple data sources – including RAND Corporation, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), and Turquoise Health – to help employers determine a fair market price for hospital services. It also includes a comprehensive guide to hospital price transparency regulations to help employers navigate the policies. (Press release here)