Bill > HB0179

This bill, known as the Hospital Price Transparency Act, mandates that hospitals in Wyoming must publicly disclose prices for medical items and services, including a list of standard charges in a machine-readable format and a consumer-friendly list of at least 300 "shoppable services" (services that can be scheduled in advance), detailing various charges like gross charges, negotiated rates, and discounted cash prices. The Department of Health (the "department") is tasked with monitoring and enforcing these requirements, with penalties for non-compliance, including daily civil fines that vary for critical access hospitals and other facilities, and a prohibition against hospitals that materially violate the act from pursuing debt collection against patients for services rendered during the period of violation. Additionally, "340B covered facilities" (hospitals participating in the federal 340B drug pricing program) must report detailed information about their drug acquisition costs, dispensing fees, and how savings are used, which the department will then aggregate into a public report. The bill also requires the department to propose legislative recommendations annually and establishes that violations of this act can be grounds for license revocation or other disciplinary actions by the department.

https://www.wyoleg.gov/Legislation/2026/HB0179