Fierce Health Payers September 20, 2021
Hospital industry groups are pushing back against a proposal to jack up fines for health systems that don’t publish their prices, arguing that facilities are putting all their resources behind combating the COVID-19 pandemic.
The groups wrote in comments to the 2022 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System rule strongly opposing a proposal to apply fines for non-compliance with a price transparency requirement on a per-bed basis. The current rule fines hospitals $300 a day.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) wrote in the proposed payment rule released in July that hiking the fine could lead to greater compliance. The agency said that its own independent audits and outside analyses have found widespread noncompliance with a regulation that requires...
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