Under HHS's Section 504 rule, an organization that receives HHS funds and has 15 or more employees must make its web content and mobile apps meet WCAG 2.1 Level AA from May 11, 2027; one with fewer than 15 employees has until May 10, 2028.
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employees: the size line in HHS's web accessibility rule
Under HHS's Section 504 rule, an organization that receives HHS funds and has 15 or more employees must make its web content and mobile apps meet WCAG 2.1 Level AA from May 11, 2027; one with fewer than 15 employees has until May 10, 2028.
HHS moved both dates one year later in an interim final rule published May 11, 2026; they had been May 11, 2026 and May 10, 2027.
Sources: 45 CFR 84.84, requirements for web and mobile accessibility (opens in a new tab), 84.84(b)(1) and (b)(2), as amended at 91 FR 25507; HHS, Extension of Compliance Dates, interim final rule (91 FR 25496), May 11, 2026 (opens in a new tab), Summary. Verified October 2026.
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The .txt file was the requirement CMS cited most often in its 27 price transparency fines
CMS, Hospital Price Transparency enforcement actions - From research
Since late 2024, CMS's price transparency fines cite how the file is built and found
CMS, Hospital Price Transparency enforcement actions; 45 CFR 180.50, requirements for making public hospital standard charges (eCFR) - From the blog
CMS has published 27 price transparency fines since 2022, 10 each in 2023 and 2025
CMS, Hospital Price Transparency enforcement actions; 45 CFR 180.90, civil monetary penalties (eCFR) - From the blog
Hospitals and doctors' offices pay data scientists below the $120,230 US median
BLS, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025: all industries; BLS, May 2025 national estimates by industry; BLS, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics questions and answers; BLS, Handbook of Methods: Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, Calculation
Sources for the figures above: BLS, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025: all industries (opens in a new tab).
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of CMS's 27 hospital price transparency penalty notices, June 2022 to June 2026, cited the .txt file
12 of the 27 penalty notices CMS posted under the hospital price transparency rule from June 7, 2022 to June 3, 2026 said the hospital's website had no .txt file in its root folder pointing to the price file, or had one that left out required details, by Kent Applied's count of the notices.
Source: CMS, Hospital Price Transparency enforcement actions.
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of the price transparency penalty notices dated December 2024 to June 2026 cited a requirement that began in 2024
13 of the 14 hospital price transparency penalty notices CMS dated from December 2024 to June 3, 2026 cited at least one requirement that began in 2024, by Kent Applied's count of the notices.
Source: CMS, Hospital Price Transparency enforcement actions.
KentApplied13 of 26
of the hospitals CMS fined under the price transparency rule got a CAP request with no warning notice first
For 13 of the 26 hospitals CMS fined under the price transparency rule from June 2022 to June 2026, the first letter was a notice of violation with a request for a corrective action plan (CAP), with no warning notice before it, by Kent Applied's count of the penalty notices.
Source: CMS, Hospital Price Transparency enforcement actions.
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