Hospitals Point to Possible Compromise in Price Disclosure Fight

• Provision in proposal for insurers would accomplish same goal, groups say
• Congressional action could moot claims

The Trump administration has already come up with a compromise in the legal battle over its signature push to shine a light on hospital pricing, and it’s buried in a similar proposal for insurers, industry groups say.

The provision they’ve zeroed in on could give a federal district judge in the District of Columbia a way to rule narrowly in favor of four health-care industry groups and three hospitals in their fight to dismantle a rule that requires some 6,000 hospitals to publicly list the prices they negotiate with insurers by January 2021. It could also give hospitals an end...