1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Promoting Access to Treatments and Increasing Extremely Needed Transparency Act of 2023 or the PATIENT Act of 2023 . I Increasing price transparency to lower costs 101. Price transparency requirements (a) In general Section 2718(e) of the Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 300gg–18(e) ) is amended— (1) by striking Each hospital and inserting the following: (1) In general Each hospital ; (2) by inserting , without subscription and free of charge, in a single machine-readable file, after a list ; (3) by inserting and a list, in plain language and without subscription and free of charge, in a consumer-friendly format, of the hospital’s standard charges for as many of the 70 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services-specified shoppable services that are provided by the hospital, and as many additional hospital-selected shoppable services (or all such additional services, if such hospital provides fewer than 300 shoppable services) as may be necessary for a combined total of at least 300 shoppable services after Social Security Act