Healthcare price transparency rules are being strengthened to make medical costs clearer and easier to compare. Hospitals will soon be required to meet stricter standards for publishing accurate, ...

Starting April 1, 2026, CMS will enforce updated hospital price transparency requirements that took effect January 1. The rules mandate hospitals post actual, patient-payable prices in standardized ...

Although hospitals see value in price transparency, a majority are concerned about significant challenges around deployment of CMS' price transparency regulation, according to a KLAS survey of 66 ...

The government shutdown fight brought America’s outrageous health care costs back to the top of the news cycle. One of the fastest, most straightforward steps Washington can take to lower them ...

Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) and other House Democrats on Wednesday sent a letter to Seema Verma, administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), seeking to find out more information ...

CMS ramped up enforcement of hospital price transparency rules in 2025, issuing fines to 10 hospitals after imposing three in 2024. Here are seven things to know about hospital price transparency ...

The government shutdown fight has brought America’s outrageous healthcare costs back to the top of the news cycle. One of the fastest, most straightforward steps Washington can take to lower them ...

On November 21, 2025, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published the CY 2026 Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and Ambulatory Surgical Center Final Rule (the Rule), which ...

Trilliant Health finds nearly 1,000 hospitals – roughly one in five reviewed – are already publishing price transparency data in the updated format. Trilliant Health, the healthcare industry's leading ...

In December 2017, a survey of more than 500 likely voters revealed patients’ desire to better understand their healthcare costs ahead of time. The Foundation of Government Accountability found that 82 ...