The only Pittsburgh-area hospital to land on a Trump administration list of facilities warned for failing to publicly post pricing information got there as a result of what it called a clerical error.

Allegheny General Hospital on the North Side received a warning notice in April, a spokesman said Thursday, which was rectified immediately.

This week, The Associated Press reported that the Trump administration sent letters to 519 hospitals across the country in April warning them to post basic pricing information for the public or face possible fines.

Allegheny General, the flagship, 500-bed hospital for the Allegheny Health Network system, is the only medical facility in the Pittsburgh area included on the list obtained by the AP.

The letters request the hospitals submit a plan to provide transparent pricing information or face possible fines up to $2 million a year, according to the AP report.

Bill Toland, AHN’s spokesman, said written confirmation in May confirmed that the issue had been resolved.

“Importantly, the only issue raised by (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) was not a transparency issue, it was a clerical issue,” Toland told TribLive.

He explained that the identification submitted in connection with pricing data was the business name of Allegheny General Hospital rather than the “legal entity name” of West Penn Allegheny Health System, and that’s what caused the problem.

Toland noted, too, that in a recently published review of price transparency tools, the Pennsylvania Health Access Network said: “Allegheny Health Network had the ‘easiest-to-use online tool’ that was clear, relatively easy-to-use, and provided accurate and complete price transparency.”

The Trump administration’s list of noncompliant hospitals contains 13 in Pennsylvania.

They included Conemaugh Memorial Medical Center in Johnstown, Clarion Psychiatric Center in Clarion and several in the Philadelphia area.

While some of those facilities were asked for a pricing plan, others received a warning notice.

The list does not specify what the potential problems are at any of the facilities.

The letters are part of an effort to tighten enforcement of a 2019 executive order President Donald Trump signed on price transparency standards, the AP said.

Those standards are intended to provide patients, employers and insurers the cost of medical procedures — including blood work, imaging and testing — ahead of time so that they do not pay more than they should, according to the AP.

Allegheny General Hospital offers a variety of comprehensive, specialty services, including institutes for cancer, cardiovascular disease, orthopedics and neuroscience.

It is also a Level One trauma center.