Policy & Medicine January 14, 2025
Recently, OIG’s Office of Audit Services released its latest report on providers’ compliance with the Hospital Price Transparency Rule (the HPT Rule). The HPT Rule requires hospitals to make public (1) a machine-readable file containing a list of all standard charges for all items and services the hospital provides, and (2) a consumer-friendly list of standard charges for a limited set of shoppable services. OIG’s report titled, “Not All Selected Hospitals Complied With the Hospital Price Transparency Rule,” found—as the title suggests—that over a third of selected hospitals for the audit did not comply with the HPT Rule. The report extrapolates the sample results and...