Becker's Healthcare July 17, 2025
Francesca Mathewes

President Donald Trump has pursued increased healthcare price transparency measures so far in his term through an executive order signed in February. Now, in alignment with that policy, CMS released updated proposals for price transparency July 15.

Here are five things to know about the new price transparency measures:

1. Beginning Jan. 1, 2026, hospitals will be required to disclose the 10th, median and 9-th percentile of allowed amounts in machine-readable files when payer-specific negotiated charges are based on percentages or algorithms in addition to the count of allowed amounts used to determine these percentiles. This policy aims to more accurately reflect the distribution of actual prices that the hospital has received for an item or service.

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