Contact Congress about H.R. 267: Health Care PRICE Transparency Act

Hospitals and health plans would have to give people more price information before care. People could compare prices online and see what they may owe out of pocket. Hospitals that do not comply could face daily fines.

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Health Care PRICE Transparency Act is a House bill in committee. The latest recorded action: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

Latest action on H.R. 267: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

Who this affects: This bill mainly affects patients who want to know prices before getting care, especially people with job-based coverage and people paying cash. It also directly affects hospitals, health insurers, and employer health plans that would have to collect, update, and publish more pricing data. Employers that sponsor health coverage could also get more information when comparing health spending and plan choices.

Why this matters: Medical prices are often hard to see before care, and people may not know what they will owe until the bill arrives. This bill tries to change that by making hospitals and health plans show more prices upfront and in easier-to-use formats. If the rules work as intended, patients and employers could compare options, budget better, and spot cost differences before care. But the bill does not say exactly how much it would lower prices or change behavior, so those effects are still uncertain.

Key provisions in H.R. 267

• Hospitals would have to post their standard prices online. The information must be free, written in plain language, easy for consumers to use, and in a machine-readable format.
• Hospitals would have to show several kinds of prices for each item or service. That includes the full listed price, each insurer's negotiated rate, the lowest and highest negotiated rates, any cash price, and the billing codes tied to the service.
• Hospitals would have to post prices for at least 300 services that people can usually schedule ahead of time. They must include as many of the 70 federally listed shoppable services as the hospital actually offers.
• Hospitals could meet the disclosure rule by running an online price estimator instead. That tool would have to meet the bill's rules for access and searching.
• The bill puts several pricing terms directly into federal law. Those terms include gross charge, discounted cash price, payer-specific negotiated charge, de-identified minimum negotiated charge, and de-identified maximum negotiated charge.

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What is H.R. 267?

Hospitals and health plans would have to give people more price information before care. People could compare prices online and see what they may owe out of pocket. Hospitals that do not comply could face daily fines.

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