Starting April 1, 2026, CMS will enforce updated hospital price transparency requirements that took effect January 1. The rules mandate hospitals post actual, patient-payable prices in standardized ...

The government shutdown fight brought America’s outrageous health care costs back to the top of the news cycle. One of the fastest, most straightforward steps Washington can take to lower them ...

The government shutdown fight has brought America’s outrageous healthcare costs back to the top of the news cycle. One of the fastest, most straightforward steps Washington can take to lower them ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has finalized 2026 rules requiring hospitals to publish actual median, 10th, and 90th percentile allowed amounts for services, replacing estimates. The ...

CMS ramped up enforcement of hospital price transparency rules in 2025, issuing fines to 10 hospitals after imposing three in 2024. Here are seven things to know about hospital price transparency ...

On November 21, 2025, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published the CY 2026 Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and Ambulatory Surgical Center Final Rule (the Rule), which ...

Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) and other House Democrats on Wednesday sent a letter to Seema Verma, administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), seeking to find out more information ...

Trilliant Health finds nearly 1,000 hospitals – roughly one in five reviewed – are already publishing price transparency data in the updated format. Trilliant Health, the healthcare industry's leading ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) are required to update and publish payment policies and rates for hospital outpatient departments and ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) annually. In ...

Those with a vested interest in the status quo, are resisting transparency regulations. After all, maintaining opaque pricing in healthcare has been profitable to them.