Comment: Many commenters opposed the proposed attestation language, in particular, the phrase has provided all necessary information available to the hospital for the public to be able to derive the dollar amount. Many commenters stated that the proposed attestation fails to account for the reality of hospital billing, which they stated depends, in significant part, on insurer behavior and calculations which in turn depend on a host of factors that cannot be easily calculated by a third party, such as whether the service was provided in conjunction with other services, the applicability of any volume discounts or stop loss amounts, as well as other unique features of a patient's insurance plan
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