A new analysis found only 5.6% of hospitals were fully compliant with a major price transparency rule, with most failures centered on not posting payer-negotiated prices, writes Fierce Healthcare. The analysis released by the group PatientRightsAdvocate.org is the latest evidence of widespread noncompliance with the rule, which went into effect back in January. The group examined a random sample of 500 hospital websites out of the roughly 6,000 facilities subjected to the rule’s requirements. Only 5.6% of the websites were compliant with all the rule’s requirements. It found that 471 facilities did not post a complete machine-readable file of standard charges.
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