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Although hospitals are required by law to post their prices online, many do not. Congress and now even employers and unions are demanding that changes.

On April 26, 2023, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ("CMS") released a fact sheet on Hospital Price Transparency Enforcement Updates (the "Fact Sheet") under the Hospital Price Transparency Rule...

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services CMS released fact sheet explaining updates to Hospital Pricing Transparency Rule. Rule requires hospitals make prices available to the public. Updates include shortened time frame to correct noncompliance and stricter penalties.

On April 26, 2023, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) released a fact sheet on Hospital Price Transparency Enforcement Updates (the “Fact Sheet”) under the Hospital...

The Departments issued the TiC Final Rules in response to President Trump’s Improving Price and Quality Transparency in American Healthcare Executive Order, issued June 24, 2019.

Below is Alston & Bird’s Health Care Week in Review, which provides a synopsis of the latest news in healthcare regulations, notices, and guidance; federal legislation and congressional committee action; reports, studies, and analyses; and other health policy news. Week in Review Highlight of the Week: This week, HHS announced it is providing $150 million to community-based health care providers to aid their response to COVID-19. Read more about this funding and other news below. I. Regulati...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: In late October, the Trump Administration, through the Departments of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), the Treasury, and Labor (“Departments”), issued two different rules — one implementing the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (“CARES Act”) COVID-19 vaccine mandate, and the other implementing the Affordable Care Act’s transparency mandate. These rules were part of a rush of health care regulations p...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Some found it somewhat ironic when, only one week before the Acting Solicitor General appeared before the United States Supreme Court to argue that Congress effectively repealed the entire Affordable Care Act (“ACA”) in December 2017 by reducing the tax penalty for not having health coverage to zero, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (“CMS”), joined by the Employee Benefits Services Administration and the Internal...