Hospital Transparency Compliance Enforcement Act

This bill increases the monetary penalties for noncompliance with the requirement that hospitals publish, and periodically update, a list of their standard charges for items and services.

The bill increases the maximum daily penalty as follows:

for hospitals with 30 or fewer beds, from $300 to $600 per day;

for hospitals with 31 through 550 beds, from $10 to $20 per bed, per day;

Summary by the Congressional Research Service.