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PatientRightsAdvocate.org released its eighth annual Hospital Price Transparency Compliance Report today. Of 20 Connecticut hospitals reviewed in the August 2026 study, just four were fully compliant. Sixteen were not.
That is 20% compliant and 80% noncompliant. Pricing files were rated sufficient at the same 20% clip. It is better than PRA’s November 2024 review, which found no fully compliant Connecticut hospitals in the sample. It is still a failing grade five years after the federal rule took effect.
The four hospitals that passed: Danbury Hospital and Norwalk Hospital (Northwell Health), and Johnson Memorial Hospital and Saint Francis Hospital (Trinity Health).
Hartford HealthCare accounted for eight of the 16 failures, including Hartford Hospital, Backus, Manchester Memorial, Midstate, Rockville General, St. Vincent’s, Windham, and The Hospital of Central Connecticut in New Britain. Yale New Haven Health failed at Yale-New Haven Hospital, the Saint Raphael campus, and Bridgeport Hospital. Trinity’s Saint Mary’s in Waterbury also failed. Also listed as noncompliant: Bristol Hospital, Connecticut Children’s Medical Center, Day Kimball Hospital, and Waterbury Hospital (UConn Health).
Typical problems in the files included: algorithms that do not produce a dollar amount a patient can actually use, missing payer and plan names, wrong NPI data, and machine-readable files that do not follow CMS naming rules.
Nationally, PRA reviewed 2,000 hospitals and reported a 28% jump in compliance after heavier federal enforcement. CMS has fined 28 hospitals, up from 15 at the last report, and sent warning letters to more than 500 hospitals in June. Hospitals that skip a compliance plan can face fines up to $2 million.
Congress is still pushing the bipartisan Patients Deserve Price Tags Act. PRA cites 93% public support for usable, upfront prices.
“CMS has made progress enforcing its hospital transparency rules, but this report shows that most hospitals still owe patients clear, usable dollars-and-cents prices they can look up before receiving care,” said Cynthia Fisher, PRA founder and chairman. “Too many patients are still being denied the real, upfront prices they need to shop for affordable care and protect themselves from overcharges.”
Fisher added, "When patients have access to real dollar-and-cents prices, they can shop as informed consumers, spot wide price variation, and be protected from overcharges," and commended "the Trump Administration and Congress for their continued efforts to make real prices available to every patient, employer, union, and taxpayer, and look forward to the day when clear, usable prices will be the standard nationwide.”
Here are the detailed scorecards for Connecticut Hospitals:
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