Hospitals would no longer need to post their chargemaster prices under a new approach to Medicare payments being advocated by a new hospital lobbying group.
The small group, calling itself the Chargemaster Alternatives for Medicare Payment Alliance, wants Medicare to eliminate payment formulas based on chargemaster prices and base them instead on actual costs. Acting in response to a new proposal that hospitals be required to post their chargemaster prices, the group argues that chargemaster prices are irrelevant for all but a few consumers.
Learn more about the group, its members, and its argument for ending use of chargemaster prices in determining Medicare rates in the Axios article “Hospitals lobbying to change Medicare’s pay formulas.”