On April 22, 2021, thirteen Medicaid beneficiaries, represented by the National Health Law Program, the Tennessee Justice Center, and King & Spalding, filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia...more
On July 17, 2020, the American Hospital Association and several additional associations and individual hospitals filed their opening brief in their appeal of a decision of the district court, which, had upheld CMS’s price...more
On December 4, 2019, the American Hospital Association and several hospital associations and hospitals (“Plaintiffs”) filed suit against the Secretary of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) to challenge the Centers for Medicare...more
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and the Trump Administration as a whole, has placed a particular focus on the promotion of price transparency as a tool to control the costs of healthcare. In June, the...more
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On March 4, 2019, HHS published a proposed rule, which includes a request for public comment on the implications of requiring providers to make public disclosures of price information for the services they perform. The 21st...more