Steps for Making Public Hospital Standard Charges in a Machine-Readable Format
Using a Required CMS Template Layout
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On the CMS Hospital Price Transparency - Data Dictionary GitHub repository, we have provided
-based services, unit-based charges
and service packages.
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Step 3: Select a Required CMS Template
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your hospital must adopt a CMS template layout and encode data elements
according to the technical specifications described in the CMS Hospital Price Transparency Data
Dictionary.
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The CMS template layouts and corresponding data dictionary are located on the CMS Hospital Price
Transparency GitHub repository. This repository houses the required CMS templates, in a CSV “tall”,
hospitals must encode standard charge information into MRFs.
Select one layouts. We recommend you
directly download and use a CSV template from the GitHub repository because it is pre-populated with
some information which can help you avoid some encoding errors.
Step 4: Gather and Encode your Standard Charge Information in the CMS Template
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your hospital must encode, in its machine-readable file, all standard charge
information, as applicable, for each of the following required data elements:
General data elements, including:
• Hospital name, license number, and location name(s) and address(es) under the single hospital
license to which the list of standard charges applies. Location name(s) and address(es) must
include, at minimum, all inpatient facilities and stand-alone emergency departments; and
• The version number of the CMS template and the date of most recent update to the standard
charge information in the machine-readable file.
Each type of standard charge as defined at § 180.20 (gross charge, discounted cash price, payer-
specific negotiated charge, de-identified minimum negotiated charge, and de-identified maximum
negotiated charge) and, for payer-specific negotiated charges, the following additional data elements:
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-price-
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§ 180.50(c)(2)
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-price-transparency
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§ 180.50(b)