Background: Starting in 2021, US federal regulations required hospitals to disclose their
prices and negotiated third-party payor rates as well as publish chargemasters and pricing …

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) began implementing the Hospital Price
Transparency Rule in 2019, requiring all participating hospitals to publish their …

Methods: Using a nationally representative random sample of 470 hospitals, we assessed
compliance with both parts of the hospital transparency rule (publishing a machine-readable …

As of January 1, 2021, most US hospitals are required to publish pricing information on their
website to promote more informed decision making by consumers regarding their care. In a …

Abstract BACKGROUND The Hospital Price Transparency Final Rule, effective January 1,
2021, requires hospitals to post online a machine-readable file that includes payer-specific …

Hospital pricing is not uniformly disclosed to patients up-front before the delivery of
healthcare. Moreover, pricing is not commonly understood by consumers and researchers …

Objective To assess trends in hospital price disclosures after the Centers for Medicare &
Medicaid Services (CMS) Final Rule went into effect. Data Sources and Study Setting The …

Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate demographic and hospital characteristics
that predict hospital price transparency in the United States. Methods We identified 6214 …

Importance Price transparency regulations aim to help patients make informed decisions
about medical care, but enforcing these rules is a policy challenge. There may be an …

Abstract Since Jan. 1, 2019, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services'(CMS) rule
requiring hospitals publish their “standard charges”(also called “charge description masters” …