Over 500 hospitals are defying federal law. It’s not a glitch — it’s a business model
The most important healthcare document released this year wasn’t another regulation, another inspector general report, or another congressional hearing. It was a list of more than 500 hospitals spread across 45 states and the District of Columbia, which the Trump administration identified as failing to comply with the hospital price transparency rule. Five years after Congress required hospitals to disclose what they charge, hundreds still aren’t following the law.
- ▪The most important healthcare document released this year wasn’t another regulation, another inspector general report, or another congressional hearing.
- ▪It was a list of more than 500 hospitals spread across 45 states and the District of Columbia, which the Trump administration identified as failing to comply with the hospital price transparency rule.
- ▪Five years after Congress required hospitals to disclose what they charge, hundreds still aren’t following the law.
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The most important healthcare document released this year wasn’t another regulation, another inspector general report, or another congressional hearing. It was a list of more than 500 hospitals spread across 45 states and the District of Columbia, which the Trump administration identified as failing to comply with the hospital price transparency rule. Five years after Congress required hospitals to disclose what they charge, hundreds still aren’t following the law. So, at this point, we’re no longer debating transparency, we’re debating accountability.Anyone who has spent time inside a hospital finance department knows these organizations possess extraordinarily sophisticated revenue-cycle systems.
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