Assessing Compliance with Hospital Price Transparency over Time
01/27/2023
Starting January 1, 2021, most hospitals in the USA have been required by federal regulation publicly to post machine-readable data files of previously confidential prices. Initial compliance with the regulation has been low, with early reports indicating compliance levels of 17–35%. Published in Journal of General Internal Medicine, this study aims to assess changes in hospital price transparency compliance over time in an effort to (a) update the earlier literature and (b) provide evidence that can potentially guide policymakers seeking to better incentivize compliance with this regulation. Hilltop Policy Analyst Morgane Mouslim, DVM, and Director of Analytics and Research Morgan Henderson, PhD, are the authors of this study.