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Hospitals Face Steeper Fines for Shunning Federal Price-Disclosure Rules

Hospitals Face Steeper Fines for Shunning Federal Price-Disclosure Rules

The Biden administration on Tuesday finalized a regulation that will sharply increase the financial penalties for larger hospitals that don’t make their prices public.

The new rule, which will take effect at the start of 2022, will also crack down on practices that made hospitals’ prices hard to find and access, including the use of special coding embedded in hospital webpages that prevents Alphabet Inc.’s Google and other search engines from displaying price pages in search results.

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