Hospital Transparency Compliance Enforcement Act

Key Points

• Hospitals would have to post and update their price lists on a clear schedule: within 6 months of the law taking effect, then every year after.
• New hospitals would get 6 months from the day they open to post their price list, and then must update it every year.
• Hospitals could not hide required price info from Google and other search results using webpage coding.
• Hospitals that don’t comply could face daily fines, with the maximum depending on hospital size (small hospitals up to $600/day; very large hospitals up to $11,000/day).
• The federal health secretary would have to publicly list hospitals that aren’t following the rules, starting 280 days after the law takes effect and then every 180 days.