HHS takes DSH reimbursement fight to Supreme Court

Modern Healthcare: HHS and providers have taken their fight over billions of dollars in Medicare payments to the U.S. Supreme Court, as the agency tries to protect its calculation of disproportionate-share hospital payments.

In a petition filed last week, HHS maintained that it followed proper procedure in 2014 when it started factoring Medicare Advantage beneficiaries' inpatient stays into disproportionate-share hospital payments for fiscal 2012. The agency said it didn't need to hold a public comment period to allow hospitals to weigh in.

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