Requires hospitals, imaging providers, ambulatory surgical centers, clinical laboratories, and health insurers to publish standard prices for their services, and requires insurers and benefit administrators to give patients clearer cost estimates and explanations of benefits.

• Requires hospitals, imaging providers, ambulatory surgical centers, and clinical labs to post standard charges, cash prices, and negotiated rates online in machine-readable form, updated quarterly when changed.
• Requires hospitals and other covered providers to disclose the owners and investors with controlling or ownership interests, and sets civil penalties and extraordinary collection limits for hospitals that fail to comply.
• Requires insurers to publish in-network rates and out-of-network allowed amounts, and to give enrollees cost-sharing estimates through a self-service tool.
• Requires group health plans to receive claims and pricing data from their service providers, bars contract terms that limit that access, and sets penalties of up to $100,000 per day for violations.

• Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee (Senate)

Health