Price information list – Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3727.42

Each hospital must compile and make available for public inspection, a price information list that must be periodically updated.  The price information list must contain the following information:

• Usual and customary room and board charges for each level of care within the hospital;
• Rates charged for nursing care, if charged separately;
• The usual and customary charges, separately for inpatients and outpatients if there are different charges, for any of the following services provided by the hospital:
  • 20 most common x-ray and radiological procedures;
  • Emergency room services;
  • Operating room services;
  • Delivery room services;
  • Physical, occupational, and pulmonary therapy services;
  • Any other services designated as a high volume service;
• Hospital’s billing policies, including whether the hospital charges interest n unpaid amounts;
• Whether the charges include fees charged by hospital based anesthesiologists, radiologists, pathologists, and emergency room physicians.

Each hospital must do the following with the price information list:

• Inform each patient of the list and provide the list for free to the patient if requested, upon the patient’s admission;
• Provide a paper copy of the list to any person or governmental entity, if requested, subject to a reasonable copying and processing fee;
• Make the list available on the hospital’s website.