Hospitals Ask High Court to Review California Medicaid Denial

A coalition of hospitals is asking the US Supreme Court to review a federal appeals court decision that would allow California to deny Medicaid subsidies to out-of-state facilities treating the state’s residents.

Eight hospitals across Arizona, Nevada, and Oregon filed a petition for a writ of certiorari with the Supreme Court, asking the Justices to review whether California’s Medicaid program violated federal equal-payment requirements. The hospitals allege California violated the US Constitution’s commerce clause and equal protection clause and federal Medicaid regulations when it denied out-of-state hospitals any share of the nearly $4 billion in additional federal supplemental funds available ...