Patients Deserve Price Tags Act
In committee: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- In committee
- Started in
- House
- Sponsors
- 13
- Latest action
- Sep 26, 2025
What it does
The Patients Deserve Price Tags Act would amend the Public Health Service Act to strengthen hospital price transparency requirements, mandating that hospitals publicly disclose detailed standard charges—including gross, discounted cash, and payer-specific negotiated prices—for all items and services in a machine-readable, consumer-friendly format updated monthly. It requires hospitals to disclose at least 300 shoppable services by 2026, with full disclosure thereafter, and establishes enforcement mechanisms including annual compliance reviews, mandatory attestations by senior hospital officials, and escalating civil monetary penalties for noncompliance, which increase based on hospital size…
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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.