The Lime Tree Blog

Exploring the current state of healthcare data

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The Challenges and Quirks of Hospital Price Transparency Files

Piping Up and Exploring the Options

Exploring the challenges and eccentricities of CMS's Version 2.0 file format for hospital price Transparency reporting. Multiple flavors, lots of pipes, and more.

6 Thoughts on the Future of Healthcare Price Transparency

The Journey Is Just Beginning

Digging into the rollout of CMS-mandated payer and hospital price transparency (a.k.a transparency in coverage) and looking toward the future. Implementing machine readable files has proven tricky, but the price transparency initiatives seem to be here for the long haul.