Search Tag: hospital prices

Executive Health Management

Many-u-s-hospitals-unhappy-with-the-cms-price-transparency-regulation

2022 22 Apr

Global research firm KLAS (Salt Lake City, UT USA) recently released a report on U.S. hospital perceptions of price transparency regulation by the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). As of 1 January 2021, all U.S. hospitals needed to comply with CMS regulations that require that hospitals provide clear and accessible online pricing...Read more

Executive Health Management

Some-hospitals-marking-up-prices-more-than-1-000

2015 12 Jun

A study published in Health Affairs lists the 50 hospitals in the United States that mark up treatments by more than 10 times the costs allowed by Medicare — a markup of more than 1,000 percent for the same medical services.   The findings show that the combination of a lack of regulation of hospital charges in the U.S. and no market competition is...Read more