Health Care: Price Transparency and Cost Disclosure
A house committee must act next: committee consideration.
The bill is led by a powerful committee chairman and addresses a popular issue, but it faces significant opposition from hospital and insurance lobbyists.
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Small hospitals, labs, imaging centers, and surgery centers face new posting requirements and daily fines if they do not comply. The smallest hospitals (30 or fewer beds) face penalties up to $342 per day, and rural or underserved providers can get waivers or reductions. Compliance means new administrative and IT costs, but rural providers get penalty relief.
“in the case of a specified hospital with 30 or fewer beds, $342 per day;”
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Education and Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
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Document Type
Congressional Bill
Official Title
Health Care Price Certainty for All Americans Act
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