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Sponsor introduces hospital pricing-transparency measure; committee carries bill for further comment
Summary
Representative Singh introduced House Bill 121 to require hospitals to publish machine‑readable, payer‑specific and cash prices for services. The committee heard the sponsor's overview and invited more public comment at a later meeting; no committee vote was taken.
Representative Daniel Singh (House District 61) introduced House Bill 121, a measure that would require hospitals to publish prices for services in a machine‑readable format and to display payer‑specific negotiated rates and cash (self‑pay) prices to consumers.
"The purpose of this bill is really to ensure that the prices that are displayed to the public" are accessible for services provided by hospitals, Singh told the committee, summarizing provisions that mirror existing federal price‑transparency rules and add a statutory consumer‑protection enforcement…
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