Healthcare DIVE May 14, 2021
Dive Brief:
- Despite CMS issuing a new rule requiring hospitals to publish their prices for many services as of Jan. 1, few of the larger institutions are making such data readily available, according to a new study published in JAMA Network Open.
- Researchers found that fewer than half of the nation’s hospitals had chargemaster data on their websites. Moreover, among 25 common items and procedures posted by the 100 largest hospitals, far fewer than 20% had decipherable pricing for any single item. The highest rate of compliance, for a basic metabolic panel, was below 40%.
- The study’s authors noted that “even when publicly accessible, chargemasters were frequently buried within websites and difficult to use accurately,” and concluded that “this...
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