---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 300gg–114"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "300gg–114"
heading: "Maintenance of price comparison tool"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/300gg-114"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter XXV — Requirements Relating to Health Insurance Coverage"
  - "Part D — Additional Coverage Provisions"
---

# §300gg–114. Maintenance of price comparison tool


A [group health plan](/usc/42/300bb–8.md?p=1) or a [health insurance issuer](/usc/42/300gg–91.md?p=b-2) offering group or [individual health insurance coverage](/usc/42/300gg–91.md?p=b-5) shall offer price comparison guidance by telephone and make available on the Internet website of the plan or issuer a price comparison tool that (to the extent practicable) allows an individual enrolled under such plan or coverage, with respect to such plan year, such geographic region, and participating [providers](/usc/42/299b–21.md?p=8) with respect to such plan or coverage, to compare the amount of cost-sharing that the individual would be responsible for paying under such plan or coverage with respect to the furnishing of a specific item or [service](/usc/42/201.md?p=a) by any such [provider](/usc/42/299b–21.md?p=8).


## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XXVII, § 2799A–4, as added Pub. L. 116–260, div. BB, title I, § 114(a), Dec. 27, 2020, 134 Stat. 2874.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section applicable with respect to plan years beginning on or after Jan. 1, 2022, see section 114(d) of div. BB of Pub. L. 116–260, set out as a note under section 9819 of Title 26, Internal Revenue Code.