A Third Of Hospitals Fail To Publish Prices In Accordance With Transparency Laws

About 63% of hospitals are publishing their standard charges in accordance with the Federal Hospital Price Transparency (HPT) rule of 2019, according to an audit of a sample of 100 hospitals. The remaining 37% of hospitals were not complying with the HPT rule, which requires, amongst other things,  that a list of standard charges be made available to the public in machine-readable format, and that the posted information be updated at least annually. Of those hospitals that were out of compliance with the HPT rule, 34 hospitals failed to meet one or more requirements for publishing comprehensive machine-readable . . .