Regulatory Updates
Regulatory Updates provide quick access to employee benefit regulations, rulings and other guidance released by governmental agencies in the U.S. and Canada.
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Agencies Take Actions to Strengthen Healthcare Price Transparency
- The prescription drug price disclosure requirements, including information on existing prescription drug file data elements;
- Information on implementation generally, such as the ability of health plans to access necessary data for reporting; and
- State approaches and innovation.
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released guidance to strengthen the Hospital Price Transparency requirements, requiring hospitals to post the actual prices of items and services, not estimates.
CMS also issued an RFI to gather public feedback to identify challenges and improve compliance and enforcement processes related to the transparent reporting of complete, accurate, and meaningful pricing data by hospitals. CMS encourages input from employers who may use the data for contract negotiations.
Comments are due July 21, 2025.