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Wednesday, July 09, 2025
The old TV program Hee Haw sang a ditty which went, “If it weren’t for bad news, there would be no news at all?”
It seems that is our current situation—we have an unending barrage of world and national news that seems to be negative almost 100 percent of the time. One of the bad news issues that affects the health care industry is legislative efforts to curtail health care spending. Current budgetary discussion seems to be centered on reducing Medicaid spending which in FY20...
Wednesday, May 28, 2025
On May 22, 2025 CMS released new price transparency information for health plans and hospitals, including guidance for the production of the hospital price transparency machine readable file (MRF). The information release was expected in response to the February 25, 2025 Executive Order which we previously discussed. While the release was expected, there are several things that remain confusing about the hospital MRF provisions. We summarize key elements and outstanding questions below.
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Monday, May 05, 2025
A Cleverley Response to The Price Transparency Executive Order
Some of our clients inquired as to how the recent transparency executive order might affect the current machine readable file template. While the executive order from February 25, 2025, titled “Empowering Patients Through Radical Price Transparency,” affirms this administration’s commitment to price transparency, it does not specify changes to the machine readable file template at this time.
It’s clear that this administrat...
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
A Closer Look At Hospitals Costs with Our Founder, Bill Cleverley
I have been in the hospital industry as both a professor and consultant for 51 years. One thing that has never changed in these 51 years is that healthcare and hospitals in particular have been singled out for rising costs—which, translated, means that healthcare and hospitals are absorbing a greater percent of our nation’s Gross National Product (17.6%) in 2023.
I may be old, but I have heard about Artificial Intelligen...