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Podcast: Relentless Health Value
Episode: EP301: What Is Up With the Hospital and Payer Transparency Rules From CMS Now and Also After January 20? With Jeff Leibach, MBA
Description: Three transparency rules have come out of CMS in the past months. My guest in this health care podcast, Jeff Leibach, calls these three rules three steps on a ladder. They build on each other. The first rule was announced last year, and it was for hospitals to post their chargemasters. You could consider this a baseline step. It's not really all that useful in practice as many discovered. The next step on the ladder (which is coming out on 1/1/21): Providers (hospitals) for all services have to post a machine-readable file—all of their negotiated ra...