New Year, New Hospital Price Transparency Requirements

Health Affairs' Jeff Byers welcomes Senior Editor Leslie Erdelack back to the program to discuss the latest hospital price transparency requirements that began in 2025, how many hospitals are actually following these regulations, and what effect noncompliance has on consumers' access to health care.

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Watch our Virtual Briefing on Uses of Health Care Price Transparency Data: Status, Innovations, & Opportunities

Related Articles:

• Many hospitals still aren’t complying with price transparency rule: OIG (Healthcare Dive)
• HHS: Nearly half of hospitals aren’t following CMS price transparency rule (Healthcare Brew)
• Latest updates to hospital price transparency rules aim to make the data more useful (Stat News)

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