# 2025-03440: Executive Order Forces Hospitals to Reveal True Prices Now

2025-03440, Making America Healthy Again by Empowering Patients With Clear, Accurate, and Actionable Healthcare Pricing Information, is a Federal Register presidential document from Executive Office of the President published 2025-02-28, effective 2025-02-25; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-11-03).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-03440
- As of: 2026-11-03
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-03440
- Title: Making America Healthy Again by Empowering Patients With Clear, Accurate, and Actionable Healthcare Pricing Information
- Type: Presidential Document
- Agencies: Executive Office of the President
- Citation: 90 FR 11005
- Published: 2025-02-28
- Effective: 2025-02-25
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: yes
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-11-03

## In one line

Executive Order Forces Hospitals to Reveal True Prices Now

## Summary

This new order makes healthcare prices clear and easy to find for patients and employers across America. Hospitals and health plans must share detailed, upfront costs for services and drugs, helping everyone shop smarter and save money. These changes aim to cut healthcare costs by billions by 2025, making care more affordable and fair for all.

## Effects PRIA read

- Hospitals and Plans Must Post Prices: benefit, high. Hospitals must keep a consumer-friendly display of pricing for up to 300 shoppable services and a machine-readable file with negotiated rates for every service. Health plans must post their negotiated rates with providers, their out-of-network payments to providers, the actual prices they or their…
- Require Actual Prices, Not Estimates: benefit, high. Within 90 days of February 25, 2025, the Secretaries of the Treasury, Labor, and Health and Human Services must take action to require disclosure of the actual prices of items and services, not estimates. This means patients and employers should be able to see the real price that will be charged ra…
- Standardize Prices to Make Comparison Easy: benefit, medium. Within 90 days of February 25, 2025, the same Secretaries must issue updated guidance or proposed rules to make pricing information standardized and easily comparable across hospitals and health plans. The goal is to let patients and employers compare prices side-by-side.
- Stronger Enforcement of Transparency Rules: benefit, medium. Within 90 days of February 25, 2025, the Secretaries must issue guidance or proposed rules updating enforcement policies to ensure complete, accurate, and meaningful price reporting. The Federal Government will increase enforcement of price transparency requirements.
- Transparency Could Cut Healthcare Costs Significantly: benefit, high. The order cites an economic analysis estimating transparency regulations, if fully implemented, could yield as much as $80 billion in healthcare savings for consumers, employers, and insurers by 2025, and a report suggesting employers could reduce costs by 27 percent across 500 common services. Rec…

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## Sources
- [2025-03440 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/02/28/2025-03440/making-america-healthy-again-by-empowering-patients-with-clear-accurate-and-actionable-healthcare)
- [2025-03440 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-02-28/pdf/2025-03440.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-03440 (as of 2026-11-03).