Of the 24 hospitals CMS has fined for alleged price transparency violations, only two have bed counts above 550, while nine have 30 or fewer beds. In its fine notices, CMS does not specify exact bed ...

Noncompliant hospitals are bolstering their earnings by blinding patients to prices then blindsiding them with massive bills that they often never would have agreed to weeks and months after care. The ...

Policymakers are increasingly focused on price transparency as a tool to improve affordability, provide price certainty to ...

The problem is not that price transparency itself has failed, but rather that policy makers have focused their efforts on the wrong place. Over the past 2 decades, American policy makers have invested ...

In the past two years, we have begun to see the value of pricing data realized. But even as we recognize the progress that has been made to date, we are aware of how much work many hospitals must ...

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A federal rule to make hospital prices more transparent may finally be making an impact more than three years after its introduction. But the benefits have yet to reduce patients’ out-of-pocket costs, ...

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With the primary goal of improving consumer decision making, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued rules requiring both hospitals and insurers to make their negotiated prices ...

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Of the 27 hospitals CMS has fined for alleged price transparency violations, only two have bed counts above 550, while nine have 30 or fewer beds. In its fine notices, CMS does not specify exact bed ...