CMS’ price transparency enforcement ‘lukewarm,’ Johns Hopkins professor says

Becker's Healthcare August 9, 2022
Andrew Cass

CMS’ enforcement of its hospital price transparency law is “lukewarm,” and the agency needs to get tougher, Johns Hopkins University professor of accounting and health policy and management Ge Bai, PhD, told USA Today in an Aug. 9 report.

Since the transparency law went into effect in January 2021, only two hospitals have been fined for violations. Dr. Bai, an expert on healthcare prices, told the news outlet CMS is “not sending a strong signal to the market that they are taking this seriously.”

“The hospitals are taking their cue from CMS,” she said. “They are thinking, ‘How likely is [CMS] going to pick me?'”

CMS issued its first fines in June to two hospitals in the Atlanta-based Northside...

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