WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) has joined a bipartisan, legislative push in U.S. Congress for healthcare transparency.

The Patients Deserve Price Tags Act is positioned to increase pricing transparency across hospital care, imaging services, clinical diagnostic tests, insurance coverage and more. It also calls for "plain language" descriptions from hospitals and insurance agencies.

Moreno, now a co-sponsor of the act, said in a statement that the legislation will make "health care price tags the law of the land."

"Ohioans shouldn't need to break the bank to afford their healthcare, and providers must be transparent about costs," Moreno said in the statement.

The act also calls for line item hospital receipts; it requires that each charge for each specific service or item will be expressed as a dollar amount.

Adjustments brought by the act will also impose penalties on any health care providers or facilities that fail to comply with the transparency requirements. Any failure to comply will be penalized no more than $10,000. The legislation additionally places the "burden of proof" on the provider rather than the individual, while also placing any presumptions in favor of the individual — healthcare providers or facilities will be assumed to be in the wrong by a substantial amount if there are any failures to comply.

First brought before the U.S. Senate back in September 2025, the act has been read twice and was referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.