Patients and health insurers expecting hospitals to make their prices publicly available may still be out of luck, despite federal price transparency regulation going into effect at the beginning of this year.

Obamacare requires hospitals to post prices of their services. In November 2019, the Trump administration issued regulations under the law that require hospitals to post the prices of the 300 common services in a file that can be downloaded from their websites. The prices that must be displayed include the gross charge for service, the price a cash-paying patient will pay, and the rates negotiated with insurers. The regulations went into effect on Jan. 1.

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