Virginia HB 829

Hospital price transparency; price comparison tool; penalties for noncompliance. Directs the Department of Health to establish a hospital price transparency comparison tool based on the information hospitals provide under existing law and the information available through the Virginia All-Payer Claims Database. The bill specifies that the list of standard charges provided by the hospital controls in the event of a dispute between a hospital and a patient over a patient payment amount and requires hospitals to discharge debt and not require payment for any elective procedure, test, or service for which the patient payment amount is disputed and there is not a standard charge made available to the public on the hospital's website on the date such elective procedure, test, or service is performed.