Two Hospitals Fined for Violation of Medicare’s Worth Transparency Laws

I’ve prolonged been an advocate for price transparency in healthcare. The Services for Medicare and Medicaid Firms (aka CMS) has these days taken movement that requires hospitals to submit their prices on-line, which ought to extend opponents and present you methods to retailer spherical to avoid wasting money. If memory serves, the worth posting solely applies to a restricted number of firms. I presume the unusual hospitals that don’t accept Medicare and Medicaid funds are exempt.

From MedPage At current:

This week [June 2022], CMS handed down their first penalties to 2 hospitals in Georgia for failing to regulate to the worth transparency laws that went into influence Jan. 1, 2021.

Northside Hospital Atlanta in Sandy Springs and Northside Hospital Cherokee in Canton had been every fined for a shortage of obtainable commonplace prices for hospital firms on-line, no matter warnings.

The fines had been on the order of $200,000 and $900,000.

Must you uncover a hospital breaking the laws, report ’em to CMS!

Steve Parker, MD

PS: Let me present you methods to stay away from hospitals.