Hospitals would face big fines for hiding prices online and failing to share them with patients.
This bill would make hospitals clearly show their prices to the public. It sets strict deadlines for hospitals to publish and update their price lists and bans them from hiding this information online. Hospitals that don't follow these rules would face daily fines, helping patients compare costs more easily.
Today, hospitals are required to post their prices, but there aren't clear deadlines or strong penalties for not doing so. If this bill passes, hospitals would have strict 6-month deadlines to post and update prices, would be banned from hiding this information online, and would face daily fines ranging from $600 to $11,000, depending on their size, if they don't comply. The government would also publish a list of hospitals that aren't following the rules, starting 280 days after the bill becomes law.
S 729 · 119th Congress · AI Summary by gemini-2.5-flash · 8/10
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