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Committee backs hospital price-transparency changes, places enforcement with insurance commissioner
Summary
Lawmakers amended House Bill 1594 to require hospital price information to be made public in line with federal rules, limit HHS licensing penalties, and give the insurance commissioner authority to apply civil penalties; the committee voted to pass the bill as amended.
The House Human Services Committee approved amendments to House Bill 1594 that align state requirements with federal hospital price‑transparency rules and assign enforcement authority primarily to the state insurance commissioner.
Representative Hendricks and others questioned details of amended language that imposes civil penalties for violations by certain health-care facilities. Chris Jones, senior fellow at the Cicero Institute, told the committee the bill’s drafters intentionally set civil penalties lower than some federal…
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