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.Check out a recently released Health Policy brief from Derek Griffith and Andrew Twinamatsiko exploring the laws and policies prohibiting the discussion of what the Trump administration labeled “divisive concepts” and their impact on health equity. And we recently unveiled a refresh to our Health Affairs Insider program. Learn more about the recent changes and how to become an Insider today!Watch our Virtual Briefing on Uses of Health Care Price Transparency Data: Status, Innovations, & OpportunitiesRelated 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)