HHS requires ALL health providers, insurers to publicly post their rates

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr has said that doctors, healthcare providers, as well as other medical practitioners will be required to post their prices for various services publicly. He also said that insurance companies will also be required to post what they compensate for medical services. 

Kennedy posted a clip of him talking about the subject, where he said, "The hospitals and doctors are going to have to tell you, before you go in there, exactly what their price schedule is."

"If you go to a restaurant, the prices are all on the menu, and you can make a choice if you buy a car, and the guy said to you, 'You have to buy the car, and then I'm going to tell you the price afterward,' you would feel very uncomfortable with that, but that's what happens in medicine. So now we're requiring all providers in this country to post their prices publicly. If you want an MRI, and you wanted to shop around and find all the MRI, the concierge companies, the hospitals, etc, around you at the cheapest MRI, you would not be able to do that. And now you're going to be able to do it."

He added that enabling Americans to "shop around" for providers, which will drive down prices due to pricing competition. 

"We're also forcing the insurance industries to post what they compensate the providers, and that is going to drive down health care prices, because it's going to allow large companies that those insurance companies rely on to shop and to understand exactly what the economics for that insurance company is and to bargain smarter with them," he added. 

The move from the Trump administration comes after the president launched the "Great Healthcare Plan" in January 2026, which "requires any healthcare provider or insurer who accepts Medicare or Medicaid to prominently post their pricing and fees in their place of business."

Since 2021, US hospitals have been federally required to post prices online, but not in their place of business. Doing so in their place of business, would allow for more price transparency, as many are not aware that prices for common services are posted online, and are sometimes difficult to navigate.