Fierce Healthcare March 20, 2023
Forty-five safety-net hospitals alleged last week that the Department of Health and Human Services has “unreasonably delayed and unlawfully withheld” funds it had agreed to pay back in 2010 for services as far back as the late 1980s. (Getty/eccolo74)
Dozens of hospitals filed a lawsuit last week against the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) alleging that the Medicare program has “unreasonably delayed and unlawfully withheld” disproportionate share hospital payments for care delivered 17 or more years ago totaling “tens of millions of dollars.”
The complaint was filed March 14 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia by 45 safety-net facilities—26 of which are owned by Dignity Health—against HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra. The plaintiff...
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