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Tuesday, May 11, 2021
Since the passage of the ACA, Price Transparency has largely been a bipartisan issue, meaning that new rules and regulations have appeared, regardless of administration. CMS’ goal is to make it easier for patients to compare prices between hospitals. However, their final rule, which went into effect January 1st, had not yet been followed up by enforcement. CMS’ website claimed they were running audits and reviews of hospital websites, and the industry waited to see if they would start cracki...
Monday, February 15, 2021
The continued pressure on shoppable services has heightened the competition between hospitals and freestanding facilities. But what effect does this have on their day to day business? We analyzed the rate at which hospitals and their freestanding competitors have increased charges in four key groups from 2015 to 2019: imaging, procedures, labs, and therapies and found some interesting trends!
The chart below compares U.S. averages from Medicare data for 2015 and 2019. To account for the d...
Thursday, January 21, 2021
Last year the hospital industry faced major changes to the availability and accessibility of their prices. Now that 2021 is here, and the new CMS rules are officially in effect, CMS plans to audit how successfully the industry achieved compliance.
According to the CMS website they have already selected hospitals for their initial audits. We’re not sure how hospitals were selected for audits, or what criteria went into CMS’ decisions, but we do know that some of the audits will probe speci...
Tuesday, December 08, 2020
Every year, as the winter holiday season rolls around, the greatest debate of our time resurfaces – is Die Hard a Christmas movie?
We at Cleverley + Associates believe that the answer to this question may be beside the point. What’s important are the traditions we create for ourselves, especially around the holidays. What really matters is what brings us together and make us feel happy and fulfilled.
But also, yes. It’s a Christmas movie.
Plus, it’s a totally awesome acti...