The hospital price transparency rule, which was issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and went into effect on January 1, 2021, is largely being ignored by hospitals who would prefer to absorb any financial penalty than comply. CMS has only started to impose fines as of last Wednesday, according to an agency email, but...
The agency proposed the update on how it calculates the civil money penalties (CMP) assessed against Medicare Advantage plans for the 2019 contract year. CMS wants comments by April 15, 2019.
The CMP methodology is used by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to calculate penalties issued to Medicare Advantage organizations,...