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Trump Administration Is Right to Enforce Hospital Price Transparency Rule
Warning letters and corrective action requests target hospitals that still lack machine-readable price files and shoppable-service displays, officials said.
More than five years after hospitals were required by law to post prices for their services, over 500 nationally failed to meet transparency requirements this year, keeping healthcare costs higher for everyone. In the Mountain West, 19 hospitals were on that list, including nine in Washington, four in Montana, three in Idaho and three in Wyoming.
Opinion They received warning letters or requests for a corrective action plan earlier this month …