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

I’ve prolonged been an advocate for worth transparency in healthcare. The Services for Medicare and Medicaid Suppliers (aka CMS) has simply currently taken movement that requires hospitals to publish their prices on-line, which ought to boost opponents and allow you to retailer spherical to economize. If memory serves, the value posting solely applies to a restricted number of corporations. I presume the unusual hospitals that don’t accept Medicare and Medicaid funds are exempt.

From MedPage Instantly:

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

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

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

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

Steve Parker, MD

PS: Let me allow you to steer clear of hospitals.