PODCAST: Hospital Pricing Transparency on the Horizon.
Frederick Stodolak, Chief Executive Officer at Panacea, joined the ICD10 Monitor Monday Special Report to discuss CMS Price Transparency and what providers need to know.
Frederick Stodolak, Chief Executive Officer at Panacea, joined the ICD10 Monitor Monday Special Report to discuss CMS Price Transparency and what providers need to know.
Raising sufficient general awareness of the new federal hospital price transparency rules set to take effect in just a little more than three months isn’t so much an issue anymore – industry leaders have been sounding alarm bells for much of the year, and even members of the public at large became well aware of the matter after the initial announcement generated plenty of national headlines in November 2019.
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Federal health officials’ November 2019 announcement of sweeping changes to the rules governing hospital pricing transparency came with an admission that didn’t mince words – Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma called the applicable former rules “clear as mud” to patients, while U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar admitted that “right now, our system probably deserves an ‘F.’”
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On September 23, 2020, Greg Adams was interviewed on the HFMA Voices in Healthcare Finance Podcast. Listen to the segment.
Our revenue integrity team continually monitors announcements by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the American Medical Association (AMA) to bring you the most current and up-to-date coding and billing information. Since our last quarterly update, CMS and AMA have been actively publishing new information that hospitals and providers will need to review to ensure that claims coding and billing are appropriate, based upon the timing of the implementation for these updates.
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ST. PAUL, Minn.—February 27, 2020. Panacea Healthcare Solutions, Inc., a company specializing in healthcare coding, compliance, pricing software, and consulting services, announced today that it has developed and launched new pricing transparency readiness software and consulting services to help providers prepare for and comply
with the recently expanded Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Hospital Price Transparency Rule requirements that will go into effect on January 1, 2021.
With these new requirements, your health system must make accessible all standard charges, defined as gross charges and negotiated managed care rates, in a machine-readable format and for consumers as a list of 300 “shoppable” items—non-urgent, high-volume items and services—on your website or via an interactive tool. The intent is to provide an easy way for consumers to determine, in advance, the allowed payment for their prospective service based on their insurance or if with an interactive tool their patient pay obligation and for employers, vendors and payers to have access to the rates with hopes of driving down costs through transparency.
Meeting this requirement will require a significant effort for most health systems, which is why Panacea has developed software tools and consulting services to assist clients.
“Our new Shoppable Disaggregation Algorithm and Report Set will make it easy for hospitals and health systems to process hundreds of thousands of claims and payment data to compile their shoppable 300 list,” said Frederick Stodolak, CEO of Panacea. “Health systems are required to develop a distinct list of items for each of their providers, considering their unique case mix, volume or revenue as well as the 70 items and services CMS has already listed in the final rule. Our new software makes building each of these lists painless by processing 100 percent of the patient population through algorithms utilizing clinical coding and financial logic and proprietary tables to eliminate the records that do not meet the ‘shoppable’ criterion. The software also disaggregates the data into useful categories with tags and filters to facilitate the formation of the shoppable list.”
Once hospitals have built their shoppable 300 list, the next step is to make the information available to consumers through a website display and in a format specified by CMS.
“To help health systems make their information accessible, Panacea has also automated the process of creating the CMS-required machine-readable file and the consumer display of the shoppable list,” said Mark Spehar, Senior Vice President of Financial Services at Panacea. “Because most providers will find it difficult to present, in a consumer-friendly manner, complex managed care rates having multiple provisions, Panacea’s report set goes beyond that required by CMS to provide average payment rate information more meaningful to consumers.”
This software and service is being implemented now in Q1. Panacea has also integrated new functionality into its nationally recognized Hospital Zero-Base Pricing® software that will empower clients to simultaneously create pricing models for the entire chargemaster and the CDM items from the shoppable list while ensuring prices are rational and competitive. Panacea recommends a holistic review of chargemaster prices each year with special attention given to the shoppable items and services.
To download a a copy of the CMS Price Transparency Rule Highlights and Next Steps, click here.
To learn more about this new software and service, give us a call at 866-926-5933.
Panacea has summarized the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and American Medical Association (AMA) payment and coding updates, effective July 2020 (with some retroactive changes). Please review the updates for possible implementation in your hospital chargemaster and/or review by applicable department, coding and billing staff.
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As many of you have heard, there are major changes coming to evaluation and management (E&M) codes in 2021. The changes were finalized in the 2020 Physician Final Rule. Read more
In response to the comments received from the CMS-1744-IFC issued March 26, 2020, there are several updates related to Telehealth and/or Telemedicine and the Physician Supervision Rules. Read more
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