Executive Briefings | January 19, 2015
We Knew It Was Coming
The headline, Hospital Quality Reporting May Hold Down Prices, caught my attention. The big (but not unexpected to me) news here? Commercial insurance companies are using the Medicare Hospital Compare data to negotiate hospital prices for specific procedures. That is big issue.
I think there has been a tendency to downplay what the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is doing with Medicare rankings if you’re an organization that is not doing a lot of Medicare billing. But in the very transparent world of the internet, what . . .