Agency: " Centers for Medicare& Medicaid Services, Department of Health and Human Services." This final rule finalizes certain 2021 and 2022 Star Ratings provisions that were included in two interim final rules with comment period that CMS issued on April 6, 2020, and September 2, 2020; other policies from those interim final rules will be addressed in other.
Since Jan. 1, 2021, hospitals in the US have been required by The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to provide pricing information online about items and services. A team of researchers from Brigham and Women s Hospital and Massachusetts Eye and Ear leveraged the newly available data to analyze price transparency and price variation for the treatment of thyroid cancer.