Just under half of U.S. hospitals now fully comply with the federal rule requiring them to publish what they charge, the highest rate recorded since tracking began in 2021. The finding comes from PatientRightsAdvocate.org's latest compliance report, a nonprofit advocacy group, not from a government agency, and it is worth reading with that attribution attached.
The jump is large. Compliance rose from 21% in the group's previous review to 49.4% in this one, its eighth report, based on a scorecard of 2,000 hospitals, according to reporting on the eighth compliance scorecard. The organization credits the improvement largely to federal enforcement and to extensive updates the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services made to its technical specifications and guidance for how the files must be built.
