re: Federal Judge Upholds Trump’s Hospital Price Transparency Rule

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This is a false equivalency. Your example is a company paying for an intermediate part. This rule is for what the company is charging the end user. To use your example, it’s analogous to you buying a F150 and not knowing the actual price until a month after the transaction.

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The rule is NOT for what they charge the end user. It's for what they've negotiated to charge on average for this service for certain classifications of users but only for services and not accounting for how complexity of care in any instance might lever on the price.

Thus, it would remain true, that the amount any end user would pay would be the result of the interaction of the specific contract the hospitals signed with a specific payer for the services rendered and the vagaries of that payer's contract with the end user. Also none of this takes into account fees associated with physicians which would remain outside of all of this disclosure.

The upshot is a onerous regulation on hospitals that won't benefit patients because patients won't understand what they're seeing if they knew where to look and they won't know where to look and if they did they probably wouldn't look.