Tag: Medicare Compliance

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Only a Few Hospitals Comply with the Price Transparency Rule

Over 1,500 hospitals reviewed in the report were noncompliant with at least one requirement of the price transparency rule between December 2022 and January 2023. Less than a quarter of hospitals are complying with the hospital price transparency rule over two years after the regulation went into effect, according to a report from PatientRightsAdvocate.org. The […]
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Cancer Centers Fail to Comply with Hospital Price Transparency Rule

Cancer Centers Fail to Comply with Hospital Price Transparency Rule

Failing to post files in a machine-readable format was the most common violation of the hospital price transparency rule among NCI-designated cancer centers. Less than one-third of hospitals with National Cancer Institute (NCI) cancer center designation were fully compliant with the CMS hospital price transparency rule, according to research published in JAMA Surgery. The price […]
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CMS Updates Healthcare Worker Vaccine Mandate Guidance

CMS has issued interpretative guidance on its healthcare worker vaccine mandate following the Supreme Court’s decision to allow the mandate to be enforced while some states challenge it in courts. The guidance released a day after the Supreme Court ruling states that facilities participating in Medicare and Medicaid in 24 states must ensure their employees […]
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Leaked CMS Report Targets Medicare Noncompliance at CA Hospital

A leaked CMS report targeting HCA Healthcare-owned Good Samaritan Hospital in California warns the hospital to fix Medicare noncompliance issues or risk termination. A leaked CMS report put HCA Healthcare-owned Good Samaritan Hospital in California at risk of program termination by October if they fail to fix Medicare noncompliance issues that resulted in patient harm. […]
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Hospital Price Transparency Strategies for Compliance, Patients

Hospital price transparency is now a requirement from CMS, but providers should be going beyond the rule to ensure transparency meets patient demands, too. Hospital price transparency goes beyond just compliance with federal regulations. Patients are also demanding more transparent pricing information from their providers in order to make more informed decisions about their healthcare. […]
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CMS to Audit Some Hospitals for Price Transparency Compliance

CMS is taking steps to ensure hospitals comply with a controversial price transparency rule taking effect on January 1, 2021. On that date, every hospital in the country is expected to provide publicly accessible standard charge information about the items and services they render. That includes gross charges, discounted cash prices, de-identified minimum and maximum negotiated […]
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