The Problem With Provider Directories

<p>Listen to Health Affairs' Leslie Erdelack and Jessica Bylander discuss the latest efforts to fix problems with directories of health care providers and the potential for a national provider directory.</p><p><a href="https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/he20230118.512500/full/?utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_source=this+week&amp;utm_campaign=january+2023&amp;utm_content=chs+event">Join Us for the Considering Health Spending event on February 3</a>.</p><p><strong>Related Links:</strong></p><ul> <li><a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/10/07/2022-21904/request-for-information-national-directory-of-healthcare-providers-and-services">Request for Information; National Directory of Healthcare Providers &amp; Services</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/12/27/2022-26956/medicare-program-contract-year-2024-policy-and-technical-changes-to-the-medicare-advantage-program">CMS Proposed Rule on Medicare Parts C and D for 2024</a></li> <li> <a href="https://www.modernhealthcare.com/insurance/CMS-medicare-advantage-provider-directories-cigna">Provider Directories Are A Mess. CMS' Plan to Fix Them Has Few Fans</a> (<em>Modern Healthcare</em>)</li> <li> <a href="https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2022.00052?utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_source=this+week&amp;utm_campaign=january+2023">Phantom Networks: Discrepancies Between Reported And Realized Mental Health Care Access In Oregon Medicaid</a> (<em>Health Affairs</em>)</li> <li> <a href="https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2019.01501?utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_source=this+week&amp;utm_campaign=january+2023">Incorrect Provider Directories Associated With Out-Of-Network Mental Health Care And Outpatient Surprise Bills</a> (<em>Health Affairs</em>)</li> </ul><p>C<em>urrently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely available — and we’d like to keep it that way. </em><a href="https://www.healthaffairs.org/subscribe/individual?utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_source=this+week&amp;utm_campaign=i