Health Care Transparency: CMS Needs More Information on Hospital Pricing Data Completeness and Accuracy
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Provides an overview of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) hospital price transparency requirements before and after 2024 updates to the requirements. Describes users' experiences with hospital pricing data before the 2024 updates. Examines CMS's enforcement of hospital price transparency requirements and offers recommendations to CMS regarding the sufficiency and accuracy of the data reported. Table 3 compares CMS enforcement actions by hospitals' rural or urban designation between 2021 and 2023.
Date
10/2024
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Document
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Government Accountability Office
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Healthcare business and finance · Hospitals · Legislation and regulations · Medicare · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data