OPPS Final Rule on Hospital Price Transparency ─ Substantial increases of financial penalties for non-compliance under the hospital price transparency rules.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the 2022 Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS)/Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC) Payment System final rule (OPPS Final Rule), finalizing several policies proposed, including provisions of the Hospital Price Transparency, substantially increasing financial penalties for non-compliance.

​A full year of non-compliance with the price transparency regulation can potentially result in a maximum penalty of about $2 million per hospital.

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