More Action Needed on Hospital Price Transparency, Experts Say

State and federal laws provide some patient protections regarding hospital prices and billing, but experts say more is needed.

A medical staff member walks inside Lenox Health Greenwich Village Hospital in Manhattan, New York City, on Nov. 2, 2020. Chung I Ho/The Epoch Times

Congress passed the No Surprises Act in 2020 to protect patients from receiving unexpectedly high medical bills.

Yet patients may still get hospital charges that seem unreasonably high or are difficult to understand. More than 5 million billing disputes have been registered with the federal government since the law took effect in 2022.