Getting clear prices for hospital care could get easier under a proposed rule
NPRGetting clear prices for hospital care could get easier under a proposed rule Enlarge this image toggle caption David Goldman/AP David Goldman/AP "How much is the ice cream?" "We're closer to that, but we're not there," said Gerard Anderson, a professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, who studies hospital pricing using the data that hospitals have already posted. Individual hospitals that fail to post properly would face the publicity of enforcement actions from federal regulators: "Consider it a public naughty list," said Marcus Dorstel, vice president of operations at data analysis firm Turquoise Health, which provides an online tool consumers can use to check prices across hospitals. Health care isn't like blouses or ice cream, responded executives from the American Hospital Association: "Very few health services are so straightforward where you can expect no variation in the course of care," which could then result in a different cost than the original assessment," said Molly Smith, AHA's group vice president for public policy.
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