WI AB353

Requires the Department of Health Services to enforce federal hospital price transparency laws, or if federal requirements become unenforceable, to implement state-level requirements mandating hospitals publish machine-readable files of all standard charges and a consumer-friendly list of at least 300 shoppable services

Hospitals must post pricing information on their websites free of charge, without requiring accounts or personal information, including gross charges, payer-specific negotiated rates, discounted cash prices, and de-identified minimum/maximum negotiated charges

DHS must monitor hospital compliance through complaint evaluation, website audits, and submission verification, and must maintain a public list of non-compliant hospitals with violation dates

Establishes tiered daily forfeitures for non-compliance: minimum $600/day for hospitals with 30 or fewer beds, $1,200/day for 31-100 beds, $2,500/day for 101-550 beds, and $10,000/day for hospitals with more than 550 beds

Prohibits debt collectors from obtaining court judgments against patients for hospital debts unless they file a sworn certification that the hospital was in compliance with price transparency requirements at the time of the claim