Georgia Hospitals Fined for Failing to Make Price Public

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Georgia Hospitals Fined for Failing to Make Price Public
09 Jun 2022
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Two Georgia hospitals were fined on Wednesday for failing to disclose prices. This was the first such enforcement measure under federal regulations that encountered patched compliance since it came into force in January 2021.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), which is responsible for enforcing the rules, has fined Northside Hospital Atlanta and Northside Hospital Cherokee. The two  Northside Hospital-owned hospitals face a total fine of approximately $1.1 million.

The fines are the first to be issued. Studies show that thousands of hospitals in the United States were still non-compliant months after the rule came into force. According to a hospital transparency compliance analysis published this month in the Journal of the American Medical Association, 6% of more than 5,200 US hospitals only displayed both of the two required price lists when their websites evaluated when the hospital's website was evaluated between July and September 2021. 

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