Becker's Healthcare March 13, 2024
Andrew Cass

The Healthcare Financial Management Association is pushing back on the latest report from PatientRightsAdvocate.org, calling it “irresponsible” and “incorrect.”

The Feb. 29 report from PatientRightsAdvocate.org found that just 689 (34.5%) of 2,000 hospitals it examined were fully compliant with federal price transparency rules. That was down from 721 (36%) that were found to be fully compliant from the organization’s last report, released in July.

HFMA Director of Policy and Analysis Shawn Stack said in a March 7 news release that PatientRightsAdvocate.org “continues to release reports and scorecards that are an irresponsible mix of misleading, incomplete and incorrect.”

HFMA outlined several key points of contention in its release. Among them,...

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