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Finding and sharing hospital prices with your audience

January 29, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

In 2001, the federal Department of Health and Human Services required all hospitals to post the prices they charge patients for services. Many, but not all, hospitals have complied with this rule. Still, finding the actual prices that hospitals charge for 300 non-urgent (called “shoppable”) services is challenging if not impossible for most consumers.
That gives journalists an opportunity to empower consumers by finding and publishing hospital price information and to ensure that hospitals are complying with the now four-year-old federal rule.
During this AHCJ webinar, journalists will learn to gather price information from hospitals and compare prices among multiple hospitals. You’ll hear from a Colorado journalist who put transparency to the test when she was expecting a baby and learn from two experts about tools and resources you can use to find prices.
You’ll walk away with the ability to find out what hospitals charge, including what health insurers will pay hospitals and what consumers can expect to pay out of pocket for each service.
Moderator
Joseph Burns
AHCJ Health Policy Beat LeaderJoseph Burns is AHCJ’s health beat leader on health policy and insurance. He’s an independent journalist based in Brewster, Mass., who has covered health care, health policy and the business of care since 1991. Burns has written for a variety of publications, including The New York Times, Fortune, Hospitals & Health Networks, and Medical Economics, among others.
Early in his journalism career, Burns worked as a reporter in Connecticut, first for The Wallingford Post (a weekly), and then The Meriden Record-Journal (a daily), and later for The Hartford Courant (the largest daily newspaper in the state and the nation’s oldest newspaper). For The Courant, he was a reporter, copy editor and regional news editor. During this time, he also taught news writing at the University of Connecticut.
Patricia Kelmar
Senior director, Public Interest Research GroupKelmar directs PIRG’s health care campaigns, supports its state offices on state-based health initiatives and works with patient advocates nationwide. Previously, she worked as a senior policy advisor at the New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute, as an associate state director at AARP New Jersey and as a consumer advocate at NJPIRG. In 2022, she was appointed to the federal Ground Ambulance and Patient Billing Advisory Committee.
Kiana Moore
CEO, Moore ConsultingKiana Moore is the CEO of Moore Consulting, in Washington, D.C. For its clients, Moore Consulting analyzes data to measure outcomes and Inform health care policy. Those clients include the federal Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research, the CDC, CMS, the National Institutes of Health and the National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions.
Megan Wingerter
Health care reporter, The Denver PostMegan Wingerter, health care reporter for The Denver Post. Wingerter is an award-winning journalist who joined the Denver Post in February 2019 as an education reporter and switched to health in 2020. She previously worked at The Oklahoman, Kansas News Service, The Topeka (Kansas) Capitol-Journal and The Muskegon (Michigan) Chronicle. She has won awards for business coverage in Kansas and for column writing in Michigan.

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Date:
January 29, 2025
Time:
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Website:
https://healthjournalism.org/event/finding-and-sharing-hospital-prices-with-your-audience/