Every hospital whose price file we could not use as published, and where the process stands. Updated October 6, 2026.
Where it stands. Of the 10 hospitals below, 10 identified and awaiting our notice. While a row is open, every figure on this site that touches that hospital is flagged or excluded. A closed row is a hospital whose file is in use as published.
What the rule requires. Since 2021 every U.S. hospital has had to post a single machine-readable
file of its standard charges, including the rate it has negotiated with each insurer, in a format CMS specifies
(45 CFR 180; the CMS template, currently v3.0). The file has to be free, downloadable without
a login or a bot check, and findable from a cms-hpt.txt file at the hospital’s domain root.
A file that exists but cannot be read is, for a patient trying to compare prices, the same as no file.
What we do about it. When a file fails in our pipeline we first check that the failure is the file’s and
not ours: a second retrieval, a second parser, a read of the raw rows. If it holds, we write to the hospital’s
published price-transparency contact (the one named in its own cms-hpt.txt, or its billing office),
say exactly what is wrong, and ask for a corrected file. We wait ten business days. If there is no fix and no reply,
we file a complaint with CMS through its hospital price transparency complaint form and record the date here.
When a hospital replies, the row says so. When the file is fixed, or the hospital shows us the file was right and
we were wrong, we re-run it and close the row. This page records dates and status only; the correspondence itself
stays between us and the hospital.
The published file is not the machine-readable file the rule describes: a chargemaster with no payer-specific rates, a workbook served under a .csv name, a dead link in the hospital’s own cms-hpt.txt, or a file with no billing codes on its rows.
| Hospital | Where it stands | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Carthage Area Hospital | Identified, notice being prepared | Identified |
| Montefiore Nyack Hospital Montefiore Einstein |
Identified, notice being prepared | Identified |
| Montefiore St. Luke's Cornwall Montefiore Einstein |
Identified, notice being prepared | Identified |
| Mount Sinai South Nassau Mount Sinai Health System |
Identified, notice being prepared | Identified |
| Mount Sinai West Mount Sinai Health System |
Identified, notice being prepared | Identified |
| New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai Mount Sinai Health System |
Identified, notice being prepared | Identified |
| River Hospital | Identified, notice being prepared | Identified |
| The Mount Sinai Hospital Mount Sinai Health System |
Identified, notice being prepared | Identified |
A file is linked but cannot be retrieved or read by any means we have: the link is dead, the host refuses automated access, or the download is not a data file. The hospital appears on the site with no prices.
| Hospital | Where it stands | Status |
|---|---|---|
| St. Mary's Healthcare (Amsterdam) (no prices on the site) St. Mary's Healthcare |
Identified, notice being prepared | Identified |
No cms-hpt.txt and no machine-readable standard-charges file could be found on the hospital’s site; what is posted is not the file the rule describes. The hospital appears on the site with no prices.
| Hospital | Where it stands | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Unity Specialty Hospital (no prices on the site) Rochester Regional Health |
Identified, notice being prepared | Identified |
Hospitals that are exempt from the rule (federal facilities, and campuses that publish under a parent hospital’s license) are not counted above. Quality flags on individual prices, as opposed to whole files, are described on the methodology page. The complete log for every state is in Data & research.