Last week, during the onset of the summer recess, the House Ways and Means Committee introduced a healthcare reform bill. Regrettably, this legislation lacks the same potential impact as the competing bill presented by the House Energy and Commerce Committee, known as the Patient Act. What are the shortcomings of this new bill? It falls […]
Over 1,500 hospitals reviewed in the report were noncompliant with at least one requirement of the price transparency rule between December 2022 and January 2023. Less than a quarter of hospitals are complying with the hospital price transparency rule over two years after the regulation went into effect, according to a report from PatientRightsAdvocate.org. The […]
About 60 million Americans live in rural areas and depend on local hospitals for care. In 2019, a record 18 rural hospitals closed, bringing the total closures since 2010 to 124, according to the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research. With almost 700 more rural hospitals at risk of shutting, the need for strategies to boost […]