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Thursday, July 22, 2021
On 19 July 2021, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the 2022 Outpatient Prospective Payment System/Ambulatory Surgery Center Payment System proposed rule (OPPS Proposed Rule),
1 which includes a proposal to significantly increase penalties on hospitals for noncompliance with CMS’s price transparency rules (collectively, the Hospital Price Transparency Rule or the Rule). Citing President Biden’s Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy,
2 the agency explained that its price transparency proposal aims to promote competition and is in part a response to complaints from patients that hospitals have not made pricing information available online in accordance with the Hospital Price Transparency Rule, as well as its own findings supporting that conclusion.