Adherence to a Federal Hospital Price Transparency Rule and Associated Financial and Marketplace Factors

Waqas Haque; Muzzammil Ahmadzada; Sanjana Janumpally; Eman Haque; Hassan Allahrakha; Sunita Desai; David Hsiehchen

doi:10.1001/jama.2022.5363

Adherence to a Federal Hospital Price Transparency Rule and Associated Financial and Marketplace Factors

JAMA. 2022 Jun 7;327(21):2143-2145. doi: 10.1001/jama.2022.5363.

Authors

Waqas Haque¹, Muzzammil Ahmadzada², Sanjana Janumpally³, Eman Haque⁴, Hassan Allahrakha⁵, Sunita Desai⁶, David Hsiehchen⁷

Affiliations

¹ New York University Langone, New York, New York.
² Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.
³ Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences, Kansas City, Missouri.
⁴ Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas.
⁵ William Carey College of Osteopathic Medicine, Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
⁶ Department of Population Health at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York.
⁷ Division of Hematology and Oncology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas.

Abstract

This study evaluates US hospitals’ disclosure of standard service charges as mandated by a federal price transparency rule and hospital characteristics among acute care hospitals.

MeSH terms

Costs and Cost Analysis*
Data Collection
Hospital Shared Services
Hospitals, Federal* / economics
Hospitals, Federal* / legislation & jurisprudence
Humans
Legislation, Hospital*
Medicaid
Medicare
United States