Forbes July 7, 2020
Hospital prices will be public after all, a result of a federal judge’s decision to reject a legal challenge from the hospital industry that would have rolled back the Trump administration’s Transparency in Coverage rule.
This outcome – and the American Hospital Association’s (AHA) immediate appeal – was predictable and, legal action or not, we were going to get here eventually. As I wrote at the time the lawsuit was originally filed:
“It’s fathomable to believe some federal judge will rule for the hospitals in the short term, but longer term there is no way Congress or the states are going to agree that hospitals have a right to arbitrarily charge patients whatever they want, without first letting them know...
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