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Bill would force hospitals to post real prices, not estimates

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Sponsor: Roger Marshall · Senator · KS

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Official title: Patients Deserve Price Tags Act

119th Congress

Topics: Health care

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Hospitals, insurers, labs, and surgery centers would face standardized price-posting rules and fines for noncompliance.

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What does this do?

The Patients Deserve Price Tags Act updates federal rules requiring hospitals, insurers, labs, imaging centers, and surgery centers to publicly post prices in standardized, comparable formats. Hospitals must post gross charges, cash-pay prices, and insurer-specific negotiated rates in both spreadsheet and plain-language formats, while insurers must provide real-time, personalized cost estimates online before care is received.

Who does it affect?

Hospitals, health insurance companies, medical labs, imaging centers, and hospital-affiliated surgery centers must comply. Hospital executives must personally verify posted pricing accuracy.

Why does it matter?

Facilities that fail to comply face financial penalties that scale with facility size and increase for repeat or willful violations, creating new compliance obligations mostly starting in 2026 and 2027.

What does it cost, and who pays?

  • Fines scale by facility size
  • Larger fines for repeat violations
  • Compliance deadlines in 2026-2027

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  1. IntroducedJul 17, 2025
  2. Senate committee
  3. Senate voteYou are here · Jul 27, 2026
  4. House
  5. The president's desk

Right now: it was placed on the , and the official record shows no floor action on it since. If the House changes it, it goes back to the Senate before reaching the president.

Latest action: — Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 522.

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