Policy & Medicine March 28, 2021
Thomas Sullivan

The Trump administration’s hospital price transparency rule went into effect on January 1, 2021, after it was upheld by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in a December 2020 decision. The future of the rule remains an open question as a new administration takes over in Washington, D.C., and some media reports indicate that hospitals have been slow to comply with the rule.

Background on Rule

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized the price transparency rule in November 2019. It requires hospitals to publish two lists of prices:

  1. A comprehensive, “machine-readable” list of various charges for all items and services.
  2. A consumer-friendly list of prices for a smaller set of “shoppable”...

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