Articles Tagged With: prices
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Study Results Suggest ASCs May Not Be Lowest-Cost Option for All Procedures
Generally, ASCs are perceived as safe, high-quality, low-cost settings for many surgical procedures. Typically, ASC costs are lower than those in the similarly safe and high-quality settings of hospital outpatient departments, which also handle same-day surgeries. However, the authors of a recent study found there is one striking exception: outpatient joint replacement surgery.
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Hospitals to Disclose Rates Negotiated With Health Insurance Companies
As of January 2021, they will need to disclose negotiated rates with individual insurers, information that always has been closely guarded, under a final rule issued by CMS.
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Surgery Centers Could Play Lead Role in Healthcare Transparency
Healthcare transparency is gaining public support, but still faces multiple obstacles to becoming a broad reality across the industry. Some surgery centers are leading the way in making costs and outcomes transparent through their websites.
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FDA, HHS Introduce Drug Importation Plan
Proposal could provide two ways for safe importation of drugs intended for international markets.
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Price increases compared for ASCs, hospitals
The proliferation of ambulatory surgery centers has not led to a decrease in hospital outpatient surgery department prices, according to a new study funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.