Hospitals Increase Legal Pressure to Boost Medicare Pay

Hospitals have expanded their legal push for the federal government to boost Medicare reimbursement. More than 500 hospitals last week sued the Health and Human Services Department for allegedly miscalculating a 40-year-old Inpatient Prospective Payment System base reimbursement rate that providers say has lowered years of subsequent Medicare payments to hospitals. The lawsuit is the latest in a series of similar complaints that allege the Health and Human Services Department must increase Medicare inpatient pay.

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Source: https://www.modernhealthcare.com/legal/hhs-medicare-inpatient-pay-ipps-lawsuits

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