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The federal government is taking steps to ensure compliance with price transparency rules for hospitals, CMS leaders said this week.

Federal lawmakers hosted a pair of hearings today focused on the cost of care in the U.S. and strategies to ensure Americans have access to the coverage they need to live healthy lives.

The Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania (HAP) supports the reintroduction of the Safety from Violence for Healthcare Employees (SAVE) Act, which would strengthen federal laws to protect health care workers from violence and abuse.

The federal government seeks to advance transparency around hospital and health care pricing by requiring hospitals to post charges online, starting January 1, 2019.

Most everyone needs and uses health care at some point in our lives. We who work in health care are doubly invested: for ourselves and our loved ones when we are sick or injured, and for the patients and communities we serve.

Our federal government says it wants to reduce the unnecessary red tape that is holding back American innovation and driving up the costs of goods and services—including those related to health care.

Pennsylvanians, like all Americans, are concerned about how much they pay for prescription drugs.

Health care is undergoing a major transformation as we move from a volume-based model of care to a value-based model. The Triple Aim focus of improved patient experience, population health, and reduced health care costs is appropriate. But not every hospital can get to the destination at the same pace or even in the same way. The challenge is greatest for small, rural providers.

The federal government has just started using stars (five being the best) to rate patients’ experience of their hospital care.

The Two-Midnight Rule implies that inpatient stays of less than two days are unnecessary and should be paid for as outpatient, not inpatient, care. Yet more than one in six hospitalizations in southeastern Pennsylvania fall into this short-stay category.