Fierce Healthcare January 7, 2022
After roughly a year of requiring hospitals to publicly post their prices for the public, the top federal health regulator has delivered hundreds of warnings but not yet seen fit to issue any civil monetary penalties.
As of an early December tally, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) had issued roughly 335 warning notices to hospitals that it determined to be out of compliance with its Hospital Price Transparency regulations effective Jan. 1, 2021, according to a CMS spokesperson. These written warnings outline a specific issue for the non-compliant hospital to address.
Additionally, the agency has issued to non-compliant hospitals 98 requests for a corrective action plan, according to the spokesperson. These hospitals had previously received a warning...
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