Stakeholders Await CMS’ Next Steps On Price Transparency Fines

Stakeholders are watching for CMS’ next moves after the first two hospitals were fined for not meeting hospital price transparency requirements, as the agency says more than 350 hospitals have been warned they are not meeting the requirements and only about 170 have since complied and had their cases closed. Northside Hospital Atlanta on June 7 was fined more than $883,000 for failing to make its standard charges public, and Northside Hospital Cherokee was fined more than $214,000 for noncompliance...