Becker's Healthcare December 21, 2023
Nearly 20% of U.S. hospitals have been warned that they violated the federal price transparency rules that went into effect in 2021, according to a Dec. 20 report from Bloomberg.
Government regulators evaluated 1,750 hospitals as of early December, and about 1,300 have received warnings of rule violations, according to the report. Most corrected errors after receiving warnings. To date, only 446 hospitals that CMS has reviewed were free of violations.
Bloomberg analyzed records obtained through public records requests. Hospitals belonging to some of the largest health systems were among those that have received warnings:
- HCA Healthcare (Nashville, Tenn.)
- Ascension (St. Louis)
- CommonSpirit Health (Chicago)
- Trinity Health (Livonia, Mich.)
- Providence (Renton, Wash.)
- SSM Health (St....
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