Kentucky House Bill 278: AN ACT relating to hospital price transparency.

Kentucky · 2026 Regular Session

What it does

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 216B to define terms; require hospitals to maintain a publicly available chargemaster of all standard charges, in dollar amounts, and descriptions for all standard facility items or services; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate administrative regulations to establish a template for each facility to use to create the chargemaster, monitor each facility's compliance, and provide administrative penalties; prohibit collective action of debt for noncompliant facilities.

Latest action

to Health Services (H) (2026-01-15)

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