1. Health care facilities must make available to the public the health care prices for the 50 most common in-patient services and the 25 most common out-patient services they provide. 
2. In-patient services must be identified by DRG code and out-patient services by CPT code, or other coding system accepted as a national standard for billing.  
3. This list must be updated at least annually with plain English descriptions of the services. It should be available to the public in a single document either electronically or by posting it conspicuously on the provider's website (if one exists). 
4. A hospital-based health care provider that is not an employee of the hospital where the services are being delivered is not required to provide health care prices for the services the provider renders in the hospital setting. 
5. The facility must include a disclosure specifying that the price for any given health care service is an estimate and that the actual charges are dependent on the circumstances at the time the service is rendered. 
6. The facility must also include a disclosure statement which can be found here.

There are additional requirements for health care providers under the bill. Read the full article for more information.

With 123 attendees, we have outgrown our typical venue and will be moving the 2018 Forum to the Brown Palace Hotel in downtown Denver.  

• "Thank you for a great workshop, comfortable hotel, great food, and great networking!" 
• "Thank you! You went above and beyond, so many different facilities & educational gaps touched on." 
• "Thank you for having this awesome program, and all the help you provide our facility." 
• "This was a wonderful experience. Very thankful for this opportunity."

• ISMP tool can help hospitals and other organizations with best practices for high-alert medication.
• AHRQ, State by State, Health Care Quality and Disparities Report. 
• AHRQ Pressure Injury Prevention in Hospitals Training Program. 
• AHRQ resource can help educate patients and their families about ambulatory surgery. "Getting Ready for Your Ambulatory Surgery" includes information about what to expect, staying safe, and the recovery process. 
• AHRQ training program and implementation guide to help hospital leaders, staff and patients prevent falls. 
• OSHA "Safe Patient Handling" Tools & Resources.  
• AHRQ "Advances in Patient Safety and Medical Liability." 
• AHRQ's "Chartbook On Patient Safety" has been updated July, 2017.  
• AHRQ Perinatal Safety Toolkit. 
• AHRQ Guide for Preventing Hospital Acquired Venous Thromboembolism. 
• The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America on "Minimizing the Potential Risks of Animals in Healthcare Facilities."  
• The Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC) has released a new toolkit to help eliminate failures or lapses in flexible endoscope reprocessing through detailed guidelines and thorough checklists. The resource is designed to help health care organizations review and assess flexible-endoscope reprocessing policies and procedures to mitigate risk of associated patient infection.
• The Joint Commission released a new Sentinel Event Alert, "Inadequate Handoff Communication" 9/12/17.