In the last two months, the Trump administration has warned over 500 U.S. hospitals that their price transparency isn’t up to snuff, The Associated Press reported. Ten of them are in Dallas-Fort Worth.
But representatives for some of the affected hospitals said their complaints reflected technical issues, not a failure to make pricing data available to patients. Multiple said the issue had already been resolved.
Each of the 519 hospitals on the list, published this week by The Associated Press, either received a letter of warning from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services or was asked to submit a strategy for improving how accessible their price information is to consumers, known as a corrective action plan. Failure to comply could result in penalties of just over $2 million per year for each hospital.
Of the 10 D-FW hospitals on the list, six were issued warnings:
The remaining four were asked to submit corrective action plans, indicating the government believes they committed a more serious violation:
Parkland’s violation turned out to be a formatting error in its document upload process. The issue was corrected as of Thursday, according to a letter to the CMS from Parkland’s chief compliance and ethics officer.
In the case involving University Behavioral Health, the problem was similarly technical — CMS flagged an issue with the way the hospital was identified in its documents, CEO Matthew Bertagnole said in a statement. Hickory Trail received the same notice, according to a statement from interim CEO LeMeita Smith, with the added complaint that one payer record was missing a contracted rate.
Smith and Bertagnole said their hospitals made the corrections and received notice of successful resolution from CMS. They added that their respective hospitals are “compliant with all federal hospital price transparency requirements” and “make our pricing information publicly available as required.”
The formatting mix-ups may stem from recently updated CMS reporting requirements for hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers. The changes were made in response to an executive order signed in February 2025 by President Donald Trump directing the government to “promote universal access to clear and accurate healthcare prices.”
Trump has been pushing for increased price transparency since his first term. He signed an executive order in 2019 that laid the groundwork for greater federal oversight over hospital pricing data and is expected to ramp up the pressure this year.
The crackdown comes as healthcare costs have been rising across the country — consistently outpacing inflation, a Peterson-KFF analysis found.
The remaining D-FW hospitals on the list — including all those reportedly asked to submit a corrective action plan — did not respond to The News’ request for confirmation that they received a warning from the federal government and information on the nature of the complaint.
Texas had the most hospitals on the list at 42; 12 of those were asked to submit corrective action plans. Every state except Alaska had at least one facility that allegedly violated price transparency guidelines.