2013 Senate Bill 627

Require hospitals to post their “prices”

Introduced in the Senate

Oct. 17, 2013

Introduced by Sen. Joe Hune (R-22)

To require hospitals to place on their website or make available in other ways a copy of their "charge description master," defined as “a uniform schedule of charges represented by the hospital as its gross billed charge for a given service or item, regardless of payer type”.

Referred to the Committee on Health Policy

Nov. 6, 2014

Reported without amendment

With the recommendation that the bill pass.