New Executive Order: Hospital Price Transparency Updates
On February 25, 2025, the U.S. President signed an executive order aimed at strengthening hospital price transparency. By May 26, 2025, three federal departments — Health and Human Services, Labor and Treasury — must take action to:
- Require hospitals and health plans to post actual prices for items and services (not estimates)
- Ensure price data is standardized and easy to compare across providers and plans
- Improve enforcement and compliance through updated guidance or proposed rules
These changes are designed to make healthcare pricing clearer and more accessible for patients.
Links to government announcements and resources:
Be ready — even as details evolve
While the full impact of the new executive order is still being defined, now is the time to double down on meeting existing price transparency requirements.
Why it matters:
- CMS is ramping up enforcement—more actions were taken in the first two months of 2025 than in all of 2024
- Non-compliance can lead to penalties and public notices that impact your reputation
- Preparing now puts your organization in a stronger position for whatever comes next
Comply with regulations and provide clarity for patients with a single solution
Experian Health and Cleverley + Associates have teamed up to make price transparency simpler for hospitals and clearer for patients.
Our Self-Service Patient Estimates solution helps you meet both sides of the rule:
- For patients: Easy-to-access, personalized estimates through a secure online portal
- For hospitals: Automatically generated, compliant machine-readable files
Stay compliant with current regulations while making it easier for patients to understand their costs — and easier for staff to manage the process.
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Road to price transparency in healthcare
Learn how you can meet the needs of the upcoming OPPS Price Transparency Final Rule (CMS-1717-F2), specifically the shoppable services portion of the mandate in this on-demand webinar.
Blessing Health System success story: Automated estimates
Blessing Health knew they needed to find a way to advise patients of their financial liability, as well as give staff a tool they could confidently use to request patient payments upfront to increase collections.
Silver Cross Hospital success story: Patient estimates
With Self-Service Patient Estimates, patients of Silver Cross Hospital now have a consumer-friendly, easy-to-use and accessible path to obtain out of pocket cost estimates.
How to add transparency to your billing process
All in, transparent pricing is an increasingly useful strategy to improve revenue alongside patient satisfaction. So, how should providers be using transparent pricing to improve the patient experience?
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