Becker's Healthcare November 29, 2022
When the next Congress begins its first session in January, it has the opportunity to strengthen healthcare price transparency laws, patientrightsadvocate.org founder Cynthia Fisher said in a Nov. 27 opinion piece in the Dallas Morning News.
Ms. Fischer wrote that the Hospital Price Transparency Rule, which went into effect in January 2021, has been “marred by widespread hospital noncompliance.” An August report from her organization found that only 16 percent of hospitals were in full compliance.
She wrote that Congress...