I’ve lengthy been an advocate for value transparency in healthcare. The Facilities for Medicare and Medicaid Providers (aka CMS) has lately taken motion that requires hospitals to submit their costs on-line, which ought to increase competitors and allow you to store round to economize. If reminiscence serves, the value posting solely applies to a restricted variety of companies. I presume the uncommon hospitals that do not settle for Medicare and Medicaid funds are exempt.
From MedPage Immediately:
This week [June 2022], CMS handed down their first penalties to 2 hospitals in Georgia for failing to adjust to the value transparency legislation that went into impact Jan. 1, 2021.
Northside Hospital Atlanta in Sandy Springs and Northside Hospital Cherokee in Canton had been each fined for a scarcity of available normal expenses for hospital companies on-line, regardless of warnings.
The fines had been on the order of $200,000 and $900,000.
When you discover a hospital breaking the legislation, report ’em to CMS!
Steve Parker, MD
PS: Let me allow you to keep away from hospitals.