Consumer Group Says NH Hospitals Failing Trump’s Price Transparency Mandate

The Ayotte administration and New Hampshire’s hospitals are touting a compromise deal on their Medicaid Enhancement Tax (MET) lawsuit, an agreement Gov. Kelly Ayotte (R) calls “a win for our state, for rural healthcare access, and, most importantly, for patients.”

But according to a recent study, Granite Staters are still losing when it comes to price transparency from the hospitals that serve them. In fact, not a single major hospital in the state meets the full transparency standard, according to the group Patients Rights Advocate (PRA).

President Donald Trump has made price transparency — letting patients know how much the services they receive actually cost — a priority since his first term. On Feb. 25, he signed an executive order entitled, “Making America Healthy Again by Empow