The federal law requires hospitals to list the prices of hundreds of services online.
The first fines have been issued against hospitals that have not yet posted online the prices of hundreds of common procedures, more than a year after a federal law went into effect.
The Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services took action on June 7 against two Northside Hospitals in Georgia for not complying with the, which requires cash prices and insurance plan negotiated rates for services such as X-rays, medical tests and colonoscopies to be listed online. Northside Hospital in Atlanta was fined $883,180 and Northside Cherokee Hospital in Canton $214,320 for not making “standard charges public,” according to a CMS notice.The law, enacted on Jan. 1, 2021, is intended to help Americans know what they'll be charged for hospital services, particularly elective or scheduled procedures, so they can shop around.
“While this step is long overdue, we hope it will incentivize the roughly 86 percent of hospitals flouting the law to do the right thing and provide real upfront prices so Americans can finally benefit from real transparency,” said Cynthia Fisher, founder and chairman ofMore hospitals are likely to be hit with fines.
this week that hundreds of warning letters had been sent to noncompliant hospitals ahead of issuing fines, according to the Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra.
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