The awards were created by PatientRightsAdvocate.org, a health care advocacy nonprofit that has lobbied for price transparency.
Rush University Medical Center is seen on Jan. 19, 2022. Rush was one of 10 hospitals nationwide to receive the inaugural Price Transparency Champion Award, honoring medical systems going above and beyond to keep price estimates accessible and upfront.
The organization releases compliance reports every six months. Founder Cynthia Fisher hopes the awards will bring publicity to the hospitals PatientRightsAdvocate.org sees as positive examples.“What the consumer needs in health care is to have integrity built into the system,” Fisher said. “Almost everyone has a story of being overcharged.
The group has one of the highest levels of price transparency compliance compared with other national health care groups, PatientRightsAdvocate found, with 88% compliance across 140 hospitals in 21 states.Under the Hospital Price Transparency Rule, hospitals must release a pricing sheet explaining how much each medical procedure and service costs.
Before the rule, most hospital price transparency databases were managed by federal organizations and focused mostly on surgery price and inpatient care. To date, the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have fined seven hospitals for failing to release price data. Community First Medical Center, in Portage Park, was fined about $850,000 in 2022. The charge is under review.
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