Today, the Federation of American Hospitals (FAH) submitted comments to CMS in response to its Hospital Price Transparency and Completeness Request for Information (RFI). 

FAH comments highlighted the frequency and extent of changes in the hospital price transparency rules and the related costs to hospitals since 2019. Against this backdrop, FAH urged CMS to refrain from implementing further regulatory changes at this time so as to provide hospitals with a period of relative regulatory stability. FAH comments expressed appreciation for the Administration’s results-oriented approach and active engagement with hospitals when enforcing the price transparency regulations, while also offering support for the CMS hospital price transparency validator tool. FAH noted that hospitals are able to use it as part of larger internal quality control processes that assess and improve the accuracy and completeness of their machine-readable files. 

The comments further urged CMS to prioritize the accuracy and completeness of payers’ machine-readable files and asserted that promoting the accuracy, completeness, and usability of pricing data from payers would provide the greatest value to patients, employers, providers, and others.

You can read the entire comment letter here.