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Enhanced Hospital Price Transparency and Penalties for Non-Compliance

New rules aim to increase transparency in hospital service prices, allowing citizens to more easily compare treatment costs. Hospitals will be required to publish their price lists online and cannot hide this information. High financial penalties are foreseen for non-compliance, and a list of non-compliant hospitals will be publicly available.
Key points
Hospitals must publish and update online lists of service prices, making them easily accessible to everyone.
Price information cannot be hidden from online search results.
Hospitals failing to comply will face significant daily financial penalties, based on their bed count.
The government will publish a list of hospitals that do not adhere to price transparency rules.
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Additional Information
Print number: 117_S_3749
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, John [R-LA]
Process start date: 2022-03-03