DC Circuit Upholds Hospital Price Transparency
Wednesday, January 13, 2021 On December 29, 2020, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia issued its opinion in American Hospital Association v. Azar (the Opinion) upholding the Hospital Transparency Regulation (the Rule) issued by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. The Opinion paved the way for the Rule to become effective as scheduled on January 1, 2021. The Rule, part of an initiative to increase the transparency of health care pricing, requires hospitals to make public in a machine-readable form five categories of "standard charges" for all hos...