Hospitals Denied Full Court Review in Medicare Drug Pay Suit

Hospitals objecting to a Trump administration rule that cut their Medicare payments for certain drugs by billions of dollars per year failed to convince the full District of Columbia Circuit to rehear the case.

In an unsigned Oct. 16 order, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit denied a petition for en banc review filed by the American Hospital Association and several individual hospitals.

The hospitals argued the Health and Human Services Department overstepped its statutory authority by singling out them out for unfavorable treatment under a Congressional initiative known as the 340B program.

The ...