Federal health officials last week defended their plan to wait until next year to say how they will reimburse 340B hospitals for illegal Medicare Part B drug payment cuts in place for the past five years after hospital groups told a federal district court that the remedial payments should begin immediately.
“[The Department of Health and Human Services] continues to work through the many complicated issues that must be resolved in order to unscramble the proverbial egg,” HHS told the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in a Nov. 15 court filing. “Defendants promptly responded to the Supreme Court’s decision in this case and have been working toward the different components of a remedy over the past months, even while the litigation of this case continues.”
Federal health officials last week defended their plan to wait until next year to say how they will reimburse 340B hospitals for illegal Medicare Part B drug payment cuts in place for the past five years after hospital groups told a federal district court that the remedial payments should begin immediately.
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