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PatientRightsAdvocate.org (PRA) released its seventh Semi-Annual Hospital Price Transparency report, which examines 2,000 hospitals’ compliance with the Hospital Price Transparency Rule.
The new report revealed 10 hospitals in Connecticut that are not fully complying with the federal rule, which took effect nearly four years ago.
Despite recent polling revealing that 98% of Americans support healthcare price transparency, this new report found compliance in Connecticut to be down from 36% compliance among hospitals in the last report, released in February.
Making matters worse, CMS recently lowered transparency standards, which created the illusion that many hospitals made strides in consumer protections. However, the new standards included the option to omit actual dollars-and-cents prices. Because of this, in this new report, PRA also assessed each hospital’s “Pricing Data Sufficiency” based on the availability of actual prices found in the files. This is essentially a commonsense evaluation, since consumers need real prices to determine actual costs.
You can view the full PRA price transparency compliance report here.
In a letter to President-elect Trump, PRA Founder and Chairman Cynthia Fisher wrote:
“Unfortunately, our Seventh Hospital Price Transparency Compliance Report reveals that after nearly four years, the overwhelming majority of hospitals reviewed are still not complying with the rule requiring them to publish their discounted cash prices and all negotiated rates. By keeping their prices hidden, hospitals continue to block American consumers from their right to compare prices and protect themselves from overcharges. On behalf of all American healthcare consumers, PatientRightsAdvocate.org strongly urges policymakers to strengthen and enforce the hospital price transparency rule immediately.”
The hospitals in Connecticut that are NOT complying include:
