A Review of Price Transparency Policy and Evaluation of Hospital Compliance in Orthopedic Sports Medicine.

ABSTRACT: Background: In 2019, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that beginning January 1, 2021, hospitals would be required to post pricing information in a usable format for patients via diagnosis-related group (DRG) or charge description master (CDM) sheets. Purpose/Questions: We hypothesized the new price transparency rule would pose challenges for many health care facilities. We therefore sought to find out how much pricing information was available before the rule took effect and how usable it was for patients receiving sports medicine care. Methods: In late 2019, we randomly selected 100 general hospitals (GH) from the CMS hospital list and an additional 21 orthopedic hospitals (OH). The DRG and/or CDM sheets were obtained from hospital websit

SUBMITTER: Schultz K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8361591 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature