RevCycle Intelligence June 29, 2022
Hospitals with more beds and for-profit hospitals were also more likely to comply with the price transparency rule, the study found.
Hospitals with greater market shares and those in less competitive regions had higher compliance with the payer-specific negotiated prices requirement of the hospital price transparency rule, according to a research letter published in JAMA Health Forum.
Researchers collected compliance data from all acute care hospitals in the country. They checked hospital websites to determine if the facilities published payer-specific negotiated prices for services. Hospital characteristics were obtained from the American Hospital Association (AHA), the CMS Provider of Services File, and the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care.
The researchers concluded the first round of data collection in July 2021...
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