Litigation
IN THE
Supreme Court of the United States
_________
AMERICAN HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION, ET AL.,
Petitioners,
v.
XAVIER BECERRA, IN HIS OFFICIAL CAPACITY
AS SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES,
Respondent.
On Petition for a Writ of Certiorari
to the United States Court of Appeals
for the District…
Hospital Associations support challenge to conditions placed on hospital affiliation.
The AHA and Texas Hospital Association filed a friend-of-the-court brief supporting the Texas Health and Human Services Commission and several Texas hospitals and health systems challenging a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Departmental Appeals Board decision adopting a “net effect”…
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
AMERICAN HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION, et al.,
Plaintiffs
QUESTION PRESENTED: The question presented is whether Chevron deference permits HHS to set reimbursement rates based on acquisition cost and vary such rates by hospital group if it has not collected adequate hospital acquisition cost survey data.
A federal appeals court today ruled against AHA’s legal challenge to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) final rule mandating that hospitals disclose their privately negotiated charges with commercial health insurers. The rule goes into effect Jan. 1, 2021.
Melinda Hatton
AHA today urged a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., to overturn a Department of Health and Human Services rule requiring hospitals to disclose their confidential privately negotiated charges with insurers, telling the court that the rule rests on a manifestly unreasonable statutory…
HHS’s March 25, 2020 Status Report and Medicare Appeals Dash Board (March 25, 2020).
Government’s Reply Brief in Disclosure of Negotiated Charges Lawsuit March 24, 2020