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State of Hospital Price Transparency

August 2026

Computed directly from our weekly crawl of public CMS machine-readable files. No sampling, no survey data: every number below reflects a real scan of a real hospital's published file.

5,399

Hospitals tracked

502

Scanned at least once

Currently valid

Verdict breakdown

Valid0 (0%)

Has warnings1 (0%)

Has blockers39 (8%)

Unreachable or not found462 (92%)

Most common findings

Attestation block is present with a named signing official40 occurrences Required fields present on every line item40 occurrences File was updated within the last 12 months28 occurrences MRF filename follows the CMS naming convention17 occurrences cms-hpt.txt is present at the domain root and points at a live MRF11 occurrences

Methodology: reflects the most recent scan on record for each tracked hospital as of page load. Verdicts follow MRF Preflight's standard vocabulary and are not a legal determination of compliance.