[johnthuss]

This is the entire purpose of this legislation. It requires hospitals to publish their prices for these specific “shoppable” services.

The problem with this legislation is that prices at one hospital are only useful in comparison to another hospital’s prices. Since the law doesn’t provide a facility for comparison, even the compliant hospital’s data is nearly useless. There needs to be a centralized database with compatible definitions for each procedure that allows consumers not just to see the prices, but to directly compare them.