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Trump required hospitals to post their prices for patients. Mostly it’s the industry using the data
Compliance with hospital price transparency rules remains low, with only about a third of facilities following regulations, prompting increased federal enforcement and fines.
- CMS notified nine hospitals from June 2022 to May 2025 that they could face fines for noncompliance, following President Donald Trump’s 2025 executive order urging penalties.
- Since the rule took effect in 2021, regulators faced slow uptake and only about a third of facilities complied in the policy’s first 10 months.
- Often buried in spreadsheets, posted prices require billing‑code expertise to interpret, and hospitals make detailed assumptions to translate contracts; price‑transparency startups use machine learning to repackage data mainly for hospitals and insurers.
- Rather than helping shoppers, the data underpins bargaining over compensation as healthcare providers and insurers chiefly use it in contract negotiations and lawsuits.
- Researchers and executives say there’s little evidence patients use the posted prices, and a 2024 New York study found a marginal increase in billed charges, dampening GOP hopes.
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Trump required hospitals to post their prices for patients. Mostly it’s the industry using the data
Republicans think patients should be shopping for better health care prices. The party has long pushed to give patients money and let consumers do the work of reducing costs. After some GOP lawmakers closed out 2025 advocating to fund health savings accounts, President Donald Trump introduced his Great Healthcare Plan, which calls for, among other policies, requiring providers and insurers to post their prices “in their place of business.” Read …
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