GNYHA developed a summary of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) proposed hospital price transparency requirements. Under CMS’s proposal, hospitals would be required to post online their standard charges and negotiated private payer rates for all chargemaster items and services, all service bundles (e.g., diagnosis-related groups and ambulatory payment groups), and 300 “shoppable”…

On October 2, GNYHA will host a meeting at which the New York State Department of Health (DOH) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will review revised guidance in CMS’s State Operations Manual Appendix Q about what constitutes an immediate jeopardy (IJ) situation in a health care organization. This meeting was originally…