
Study: Hospitals widely non-compliant with price transparency mandate
More than half of the studied hospitals did not have online chargemaster data available on their websites.
Many hospitals are not in compliance with price transparency rules from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) after the rules took effect Jan. 1.
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This includes 305 hospitals with broken links or incorrectly linked files and 138 hospitals which only provided an online cost estimator. It took an average of three clicks to reach hospitals’ chargemaster from their website homepage, according to the study.
Hospitals with below average patients experience and private non-profit ownership were more likely to comply, while psychiatric hospitals and those with religious ownership were associated with less compliance, the study says
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