HealthLeaders Media September 27, 2022
The American Hospital Association (AHA) says HHS steadfastly refuses to recognize its obligation to promptly repay hospitals.
The AHA told D.C courts it should reject HHS’ request to devise its own timeline to remedy its underpayments to 340B hospitals with no limitations and no oversight by the court, according to the AHA’s recently filed amicus brief.
“Despite conceding that it has maintained an unlawful payment policy for five years, underpaying 340B hospitals by billions of dollars, HHS steadfastly refuses to recognize its obligation to promptly repay Plaintiffs and their members,” AHA wrote in its brief.
HHS has had years to find a solution in the event of an adverse final decision—and more than three months since the Supreme Court’s...