A North Carolina hospital alleges the US Medicare program arbitrarily denied payment for its in-house training program after a contractor deemed that its education program did not meet federal requirements for reimbursement.
According to the lawsuit filed Nov. 29 in the US District Court for the Western District of North Carolina, hospitals operating specialized in-house training for nurses and allied health professions like radiologists and pharmacists are entitled to Medicare compensation if they “directly incur the program costs, directly control the curriculum and administration, employ the teaching staff, and supply classroom instruction and clinical training.”
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Hospital Authority (CMHA) ...
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