Medicare chief Seema Verma is urging the Massachusetts healthcare industry to bring itself in line with other industries in terms of price transparency and data access. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued a set of proposals, including calling for hospitals to demystify healthcare prices by posting them online, and for discharge records to be transferred digitally to help patients access their data more easily.
Medicare chief Seema Verma is urging the US healthcare industry to bring itself in line with other industries in terms of price transparency and data access. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued a set of proposals, including calling for hospitals to demystify healthcare prices by posting them online, and for discharge records to be transferred digitally to help patients access their data more easily.