National hospital groups, as expected, late last week asked a judge again to order the federal government to promptly repay 340B hospitals for illegally reduced Medicare Part B drug payments from 2018 through late September. They asked the first time in August and have repeated the request in court and in public multiple times since.
American Hospital Association, America’s Essential Hospitals, and Association of American Medical Colleges asked yet again in a Nov. 4 filing in federal district court in Washington, D.C. It was in response to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ announcement last week in its hospital outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) final rule for 2023 that it will wait until next year to decide how to remedy the five years of illegal underpayments. They totaled between $1.6 billion and almost $2 billion per year.
National hospital groups, as expected, late last week asked a judge again to order the federal government to promptly repay 340B hospitals for illegally reduced Medicare Part B drug payments from 2018 through late September. They asked the first time in August and have repeated the request in court and in public multiple times since.
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