Major Hospitals Still Not Complying with Price Transparency Rule
Nearly two-thirds of the largest hospitals in the US have yet to fully comply with the new price transparency rule, with most missing payer-specific charges. Many of the largest hospitals in the country are still not complying with a new price transparency rule that went into effect on Jan. 1, 2021, according to a new analysis . Nearly two-thirds of the 100 largest hospitals in the US by certified bed count did not meet all the requirements of the new rule, including posting payer-specific negotiated charges on their websites, by early February 2021, researchers from Hilltop Institute, a nonpartisan research organization at the University of Maryland, recently reported in the Health Affairs blog. What’s more, just 22 percent of the hospitals in the analysis appeared to be fully compliant with the rule’s requirements, with some even exceeding the regulation in terms of the amount of pricing information they shared on public websites. Researchers deemed hospitals compliant if their files