ORLANDO, Fla. — More Florida hospitals are complying with federal requirements to make prices public, but a new report found more than a third of those reviewed still fell short.
Patient Rights Advocate, a nonprofit that advocates for health care price transparency, reviewed 151 Florida hospitals as part of a nationwide study of 2,000 facilities.
The group found 93 Florida hospitals, or 62%, were fully compliant with the federal Hospital Price Transparency Rule, while 58 hospitals, or 38%, were not.
That is a significant improvement from PRA’s previous report in November 2024, when the organization found only 29% of Florida hospitals were fully compliant.
Several Central Florida hospitals listed as noncompliant
The report identified a number of AdventHealth hospitals in the Orlando area as noncompliant, including AdventHealth Altamonte Springs, Apopka, Celebration, East Orlando, Kissimmee, Minneola, Orlando, Winter Garden and Winter Park.
Other AdventHealth facilities, including those in Daytona Beach, DeLand, Fish Memorial, New Smyrna Beach, Ocala and Waterman, were listed as compliant.
Most Orlando Health facilities reviewed by the group were listed as compliant. Those included Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children, Dr. P. Phillips Hospital, Horizon West Hospital, Lake Mary Hospital, Orlando Regional Medical Center, South Lake Hospital and Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women & Babies.
Orlando Health - Health Central Hospital and Orlando Health Sebastian River Hospital were listed as noncompliant.
The classifications come from Patient Rights Advocate’s analysis and are not themselves federal enforcement findings.
National compliance also improves
Nationwide, PRA found 988 of the 2,000 hospitals it reviewed, or 49.4%, were fully compliant. That was up from 21.1% in its previous report.
The organization classified 1,012 hospitals, or 50.6%, as noncompliant. It said one major issue was hospitals using percentages or algorithms rather than publishing prices that consumers could readily convert into actual dollar amounts.
Only 360 hospitals reviewed, or 18%, posted dollar-and-cents prices for at least half of the items and services in their files, according to the report.
The federal Hospital Price Transparency Rule requires hospitals to make information about their standard charges publicly available.
Read more about the federal Hospital Price Transparency requirements.
Patient Rights Advocate said increased federal enforcement has coincided with the improvement in compliance. The organization said 28 hospitals have now been fined nationwide, up from 15 at the time of its previous report.
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