Baucus Floats Idea Of Forcing Hospitals To Report Device Prices, Device Makers Protest

Baucus Floats Idea Of Forcing Hospitals To Report Device Prices, Device Makers Protest: "Senate Finance Committee chair Max Baucus (D-MT) has signaled he may push to mandate that hospitals report medical device prices to CMS in response to congressional investigators' discovery of major pricing disparities with implantable devices -- a reporting idea hospital officials tell Inside CMS should instead be directed at the medical device industry and the medical device industry rejects as unnecessary. "