In its second report evaluating whether hospitals are with complying with the price transparency rule that went into effect Jan. 1, 2021, PatientRightsAdvocate.org found compliance to be still very low with none of the hospitals at the nation's largest hospital system posting prices online.
Early implementation of federal transparency mandates for hospital prices illustrate challenges consumers and companies will face in trying to use these data to control costs.
The Community Oncology Alliance was among the groups that did their own research in support of a plan to boost the federal penalties for hospitals that fail to meet standards for revealing prices.
When President Donald Trump issued a rule requiring hospitals and insurance companies to post their prices online, liberals were confused. Cynthia Fisher Patients Rights Advocate “Wait a second,” they asked. “Who persuaded that guy to do something good like that?” Turns out it was Cynthia Fisher, the founder and chair of patientrightsadvocate.org. Her mission –…
A community clinic in Vista has a volunteer group going door to door to convince North County Latinos to get vaccinated. Meanwhile, 10 months after being required to post prices for every medical procedure they offer, many hospitals in San Diego and across the country have failed to do so. Plus, we’ll meet San Diego Unified School Board’s first-ever high school student representative.
The federal government wants consumers to be able to compare prices for common medical services in US hospitals, but most in San Diego and around the country have failed to meet those requirements.
PatientRightsAdvocate.org recently released a study which detailed how well eight randomly selected Michigan hospitals complied with a new ACA hospital price transparency rule.
Five Utah hospitals reported as "noncompliant" with new ACA price transparency rule - State of Reform stateofreform.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from stateofreform.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Study finds 23 Texas hospitals noncompliant with federal price transparency rules stateofreform.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from stateofreform.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.