"The American Hospital Association had sued to stop the initiative from taking effect. But in June, a federal judge in the District of Columbia ruled that the new rules were legal. The hospital trade group appealed ... On [December 29], a panel for the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia unanimously upheld the district court's ruling.... The rule, first proposed in July 2019, could upend the $1 trillion hospital industry by unveiling rates long guarded as trade secrets." [American Hospital Association v. Alex Azar, II, No. 20-5193 (D.C. Cir. Dec. 29, 2020)]  MORE >>