# 119-hr-267: Health Care PRICE Transparency Act

119-hr-267, Health Care PRICE Transparency Act, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Davidson, Warren [R-OH-8] (R-OH); status introduced; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2025-12-21).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-hr-267
- Congress: 119
- Title: Health Care PRICE Transparency Act
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2025-01-09
- Sponsor: Rep. Davidson, Warren [R-OH-8] (R-OH)
- Cosponsors: 0
- Policy area: Health
- Touches household money: yes
- Last recorded action: 2025-12-21

## Summary

**This bill would require hospitals and health plans to publish detailed prices, negotiated rates, cash discounts, and billing codes and to give consumers easy tools to find personalized cost estimates.** - Hospitals must post a free, machine‑readable list of standard charges that includes gross charges, payer‑specific negotiated rates, de‑identified min and max negotiated charges, discounted cash prices, and billing codes like CPT, HCPCS, DRG, or NDC. They must cover at least 300 shoppable services or as many as they offer and may meet the rule with an internet price‑estimator that shows what a patient will owe. Penalties for noncompliance can reach $300 per day. - Health plans and Exchanges must disclose in‑network and out‑of‑network charges, negotiated rates and historical net prices for covered prescription drugs, and provide an internet self‑service tool with real‑time cost‑sharing results. Plans must also supply a paper list on request with no fewer than 20 providers mailed within two business days. - The disclosure rules extend beyond individual market plans to group health plans, including self‑insured and fully insured plans, improving price visibility across more types of coverage.

## Provisions PRIA read

- Real-time cost estimates from your health plan: benefit, medium. If passed, your health plan would need to give real-time cost estimates for care and drugs. The estimate would show what you would owe after your deductible and any cost-sharing reductions. It would show how much you already paid toward your deductible and out-of-pocket limit. You could see in-netw…
- Hospitals must post prices or face fines: benefit, low. Hospitals would have to post their prices online for free in a simple, machine-readable format. Each list would include clear descriptions and billing codes. It would show gross charges, payer-specific negotiated rates with payer and plan names, de-identified minimum and maximum rates, and the disc…

## Related bills

- 119-hr-3633: Digital Asset Market Clarity Act
- 119-hr-3330: Energy Freedom Act
- 119-hr-25: FairTax Act of 2025
- 119-hr-8324: Great American Healthcare Plan
- 119-hr-6955: Main Street Capital Access Act
- 119-hr-266: Educational Opportunity and Success Act of 2025

## Sources
- [119-hr-267 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/267)

## Related
- [119-hr-3633: Digital Asset Market Clarity Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-3633)
- [119-hr-3330: Energy Freedom Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-3330)
- [119-hr-25: FairTax Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-25)
- [119-hr-8324: Great American Healthcare Plan](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-8324)
- [119-hr-6955: Main Street Capital Access Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-6955)
- [119-hr-266: Educational Opportunity and Success Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-266)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-267 (as of 2025-12-21).