Health Care Price Certainty for All Americans Act
Reported from committee: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- Reported from committee
- Started in
- House
- Sponsor
- 1
- Latest action
- Jul 15, 2026
What it does
The Health Care Price Certainty for All Americans Act would require hospitals receiving Medicare payments to publicly disclose detailed pricing information for their services, including standard charges, payer-specific negotiated rates, and discounted cash prices, in both machine-readable and consumer-friendly formats, updated at least annually. It mandates that hospitals provide price estimates for at least 300 shoppable services through a publicly accessible price estimator tool that does not require account creation, and requires annual CEO/CFO attestation of data accuracy. Noncompliant hospitals could face civil monetary penalties ranging from $342 per day for small hospitals to $6,277…
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Where it stands
Introduced (Done)
Committee (Current step)
Floor (Not started)
Law (Not started)
What moved
Who is involved
Sponsors
The lawmakers who put their names on it, lead sponsors first.
Where it goes next
While a bill can still move, the questions are about people and money.