Re:Medicare will require hospitals to post prices online
by ethbro on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @12:39PM
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The key point of prices being published in a machine accessible and machine readable format isn't the numbers.
What numbers are published can be haggled over in future laws.
But the requirement for some numbers to be published is a big win.
FWIW, the move to digital health records was basically realized through Medicare demanding it. Providers can't afford to go without Medicare payments; like Texas and California, so goes Medicare, so goes the market.
What numbers are published can be haggled over in future laws.
But the requirement for some numbers to be published is a big win.
FWIW, the move to digital health records was basically realized through Medicare demanding it. Providers can't afford to go without Medicare payments; like Texas and California, so goes Medicare, so goes the market.