Chamber of Commerce Drops Insurer Price Transparency Suit (1)

A lawsuit in a Texas federal court to stop the government’s enforcement of new insurance price transparency provisions finalized in the waning days of the Trump administration is over.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce voluntarily dismissed its complaint against the U.S. Health and Human Services Department and other agencies that had challenged a requirement that health insurers post internal and proprietary data on a public website in a “machine-readable” format.

Judge Jeremy D. Kernodle of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas closed the case Thursday, but noted that the dismissal is without prejudice, meaning it could ...