Hospitals’ Quest for Repayment of Lost Medicare Pay Sent to HHS

The US Health and Human Services Department will get a crack at recalculating Medicare payments owed to hospitals that provide care to poor patients, following a US Supreme Court ruling that it unlawfully set reimbursement rates available to a particular group of hospitals that participate in the 340B Medicare drug and outpatient services program.

These “340B hospitals” serve low-income communities and rely on the reimbusements to support their costs, feeding those outpatient drug savings back into their communities to support uninsured patients.

But the “staggering value and number of transactions at issue” prompted the US District Court for the District ...