Hill January 4, 2021
Americans just won a huge victory and took a giant step toward being able to know and control their health-care costs and spending. The triumph came as a federal appeals court unanimously upheld a game-changing rule that compels hospitals to show their real and previously hidden prices in a way we can all access and understand.
Patients now have the right to know the actual price of their hospital care before they get it. The decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia means that hospitals must comply with the price transparency rule that the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services issued in November 2019, and that hospital groups have been fighting ever since.
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