3 more hospitals appeal price transparency fines

Three hospitals that have been recently fined by CMS for alleged price transparency violations are appealing their punishments. 

Doctors' Center Hospital Bayamón (Puerto Rico), Samaritan Hospital-Albany (N.Y.) Memorial Campus and Lares, Puerto Rico-based Hospital General Castañer are appealing their fines, according to a Sept. 25 update on CMS' price transparency enforcement website. 

All three hospitals were fined in late August. Doctor's Center Hospital was fined $102,200; Hospital General Castañer was fined $101,400 and Samaritan Hospital was fined $56,940. 

The latest appeals bring the total number of hospitals appealing their price transparency fines to six. Salem, Ark.-based Fulton County Hospital, Chicago-based Community First Medical Center and Wichita Falls, Texas-based Kell West Regional Hospital appealed their fines earlier this year.

To date, 14 hospitals have been fined for price transparency violations.  

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