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S. 729 119th Congress Senate

Hospital Transparency Compliance Enforcement Act

Official title: A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to enhance compliance with hospital price transparency requirements, and for other purposes.

Introduced: February 25, 2025 Introduced by: John Kennedy Republican · Louisiana See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Hospital Transparency Compliance Enforcement Act

This bill increases the monetary penalties for noncompliance with the requirement that hospitals publish, and periodically update, a list of their standard charges for items and services.

The bill increases the maximum daily penalty as follows:

  • for hospitals with 30 or fewer beds, from $300 to $600 per day;
  • for hospitals with 31 through 550 beds, from $10 to $20 per bed, per day;
  • for hospitals with greater than 550 beds, from $5,500 to $11,000 per hospital, per day.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services also must periodically publish the name of each hospital that is not in compliance with the price transparency requirements.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 729: Hospital Transparency Compliance Enforcement Act. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-729/
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"S. 729: Hospital Transparency Compliance Enforcement Act." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-729/.
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S. 729, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-729/.
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