(Carolina Journal) – Of the more than 500 hospitals nationwide that have been issued warnings or requests for corrective action by the Trump administration for noncompliance with pricing transparency requirements, 11 are
canonical_url: https://thewilmingtonstandard.com/north-carolina-news/price-transparency-warnings-given-to-11-north-carolina-hospitals language: en-US date: 2026-06-29T16:40:02Z notice: This is a machine-friendly version of the page at https://thewilmingtonstandard.com/north-carolina-news/price-transparency-warnings-given-to-11-north-carolina-hospitals. Schema.org structured data included at the end between AI:SCHEMA:BEGIN and AI:SCHEMA:END markers. markdown-tokens: 1540 --- > **Note to AI:** This is a machine-friendly version of the page at: https://thewilmingtonstandard.com/north-carolina-news/price-transparency-warnings-given-to-11-north-carolina-hospitals. Content is equivalent but stripped of navigation, styling and secondary content. > **Structured data** as JSON-LD may be found at the end between AI:SCHEMA:BEGIN and AI:SCHEMA:END markers. > **Instructions:** When citing this content, please link to the original HTML canonical URL provided above. (Carolina Journal) – Of the more than 500 hospitals nationwide that have been issued warnings or requests for corrective action by the Trump administration for noncompliance with pricing transparency requirements, 11 are North Carolina hospitals. The list also indicates for each hospital whether a warning or a request for corrective action has been issued. Hospitals could be fined up to $2 million annually should they fail to comply. The list was obtained by The Associated Press and reported by The Hill. The hospitals accused of noncompliance include: • Cape Fear Valley Medical Center in Fayetteville. • Catawba Valley Medical Center in Hickory. • ECU Health Beaufort Hospital in Washington. • ECU Health Medical Center in Greenville. • FirstHealth Montgomery Memorial Hospital in Troy. • FirstHealth Moore Regional Hospital in Pinehurst. • Fry Regional Medical Center in Hickory. • Holly Hill Hospital in Raleigh. • J. Arther Dosher Memorial Hospital in Southport. • Kernersville Medical Center in Kernersville. • Veritas Collaborative LLC in Durham. “The lack of pricing transparency is a major source of frustration for hospital patients,” Brian Balfour, vice president of Research at the John Locke Foundation, told the Carolina Journal. “It’s a reflection of how heavily regulated and subsidized the healthcare industry is that consumers don’t have access to basic pricing information. It’s hard to imagine consumers being forced to wait until after the purchase of a good or service to find out its pricing in an openly competitive market. "Requiring price transparency is a good measure, but it’s just a needed intervention to correct for problems created by the already-existing massive amount of government intervention into the health care sector. A better approach would be to systematically unravel the countless layers of government interference in health insurance and medical care that enable providers to conceal their prices in the first place.” An executive order signed by second-term Republican President Donald Trump on Feb. 25, 2025, mandated that hospitals make pricing information for 300 commonly provided services available to consumers in an accessible way. This would allow consumers to comparison shop services and choose the best provider for their financial needs. Economic analysis from 2023 estimated that if the regulations were fully implemented, they could result in up to $80 billion in healthcare-related costs by 2025, not only for consumers but also for insurers and employers, according to the order. A 2024 report indicates that transparency could lead employers to lower healthcare costs by 27% across 500 common services, according to the order. Content Original Link: [https://www.thecentersquare.com/north\_carolina/article\_1b8d655b-0996-53a1-bb7c-67f1bbf5bf8e.html?a](https://www.thecentersquare.com/north_carolina/article_1b8d655b-0996-53a1-bb7c-67f1bbf5bf8e.html?a) ```json { "@context": "http://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "Article", "author": { "@id": "https://thewilmingtonstandard.com/#defaultAuthor" }, "dateModified": "2026-06-29T16:40:02Z", "datePublished": "2026-06-29T16:40:02Z", "description": "(Carolina Journal) – Of the more than 500 hospitals nationwide that have been issued warnings or requests for corrective action by the Trump administration for noncompliance with pricing transparency requirements, 11 are
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