Most hospitals failing price transparency rule

Yes, but: Only 6% of facilities covered by the rule were totally compliant.

• Looking across roughly 5,000 hospitals, 14% of hospitals had had an adherent machine-readable file but no shoppable display.
• About 30% had a shoppable display but no machine-readable file.
• And more than half of hospitals had neither.

The intrigue: Acute care hospitals with less revenue per patient per day located in unconcentrated health care markets and in urban areas were more likely to be transparent.

• "Greater scrutiny of hospitals without these characteristics may be needed to ensure hospital price transparency," the authors said.