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Price Transparency
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Hall Benefits Law Blog
Federal Agencies Propose Amended Rules Relating to Price Transparency Reporting Requirements
By Anne Hall
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA), and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have proposed rules on price transparency reporting requirements. The…
Ogletree Deakins Insights
Proposed Federal Regulation Pushes for More Price Transparency in Health Plans
On December 23, 2025, three federal agencies released a proposed rule to make costs more transparent in health plans. The proposal aligns with an executive order that President Donald Trump…
Hall Benefits Law Blog
Bipartisan Senate Finance Committee Leaders Reintroduce PBM Regulation Bill
By Anne Hall
A bipartisan coalition of legislators, led by the leaders of the Senate Finance Committee, has reintroduced a major pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) regulation bill in Congress. Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho,…
Hall, Render, Killian, Heath & Lyman, P.C. Blog
Actions Required: CMS Finalizes Another Round of Price Transparency Updates
By Hall Render
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) has released the Calendar Year 2026 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System Final Rule, which includes another round of substantial updates to the…
All About Advertising Law
FTC’s Melissa Holyoak Outlines Consumer Protection Focus at ANA Advertising Law Conference
By Leonard L. Gordon, Jay Prapaisilp
In her remarks at this year’s ANA Masters of Advertising Law Conference, Commissioner Melissa Holyoak of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) emphasized three areas where the agency is focusing its…
Health Law Diagnosis
CMS Issues Guidance and Requests Information to Promote Hospital Price Transparency Compliance and Enforcement Efforts
By Conor Duffy
On May 22, 2025, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) took a series of actions to promote enhanced price transparency compliance by hospitals and identify challenges thereto, in…
Regulatory Oversight
Price Transparency: Massachusetts Adopts New Consumer Protection Rules
By Troutman Pepper Locke State Attorneys General Team, Warren F. "Jay" Myers
The Massachusetts attorney general’s (AG) office has finalized new consumer protection regulations aimed at eliminating hidden “junk fees” and improving price transparency. Set to take effect on September 2, the…
All About Advertising Law
FTC Staff Issues Guidance Ahead of New Rule Targeting Deceptive Fees
Last week, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published a set of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) aimed at helping businesses and consumers understand the agency's Rule on Unfair or Deceptive Fees,…
Banking, Finance and Securities
FCA publishes good and poor practice examples for international payment pricing under Consumer Duty
By Anita Edwards, Simon Lovegrove (UK)
On 1 May 2025, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published a new webpage, Consumer Duty: International payment pricing transparency – good and poor practice. The webpage sets out examples of…
Blog of Reason
The FTC Releases New “Junk Fee” Rule
The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) has announced its narrowed “Junk Fee” Rule that targets pricing practices in the short-term lodging and live-event ticketing industries.[1] The Rule results from the FTC’s efforts…