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Version 00 · Introduced in Senate · Feb 25, 2025
Hospital Transparency Compliance Enforcement Act
This bill increases the monetary penalties for noncompliance with the requirement that hospitals publish, and periodically update, a list of their standard charges for items and services.
The bill increases the maximum daily penalty as follows:
for hospitals with 30 or fewer beds, from $300 to $600 per day;
for hospitals with 31 through 550 beds, from $10 to $20 per bed, per day;
for hospitals with greater than 550 beds, from $5,500 to $11,000 per hospital, per day.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services also must periodically publish the name of each hospital that is not in compliance with the price transparency requirements.
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Sen. Kennedy, John [R-LA] · R–LA
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Introduced in Senate
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