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On September 27, 2023, Judge Royce Lamberth of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed a lawsuit challenging HHS’s calculation of the standardized amount used in calculating Medicare Inpatient...more
On September 1, 2023, the D.C. Circuit affirmed the D.C. District Court’s decision in Pomona Valley Hosp. Med. Ctr. v. Azar, 2020 WL 5816486, at *1 (D.D.C. Sept. 30, 2020) requiring CMS to produce affirmative evidence as to...more
On March 21, 2017, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that a hospital lacked standing to challenge a decision of the Provider Reimbursement Review Board (the “PRRB”), since the hospital failed to...more
On July 25, 2016, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia issued an opinion favoring provider flexibility in the reasonable collection of Medicare bad debt. Winder HMA, LLC, et al. v. Sylvia Burwell. The...more
You can tell by its name that you won’t like the Medicare “self-disallowance” rule. The federal district court for D.C. didn’t like it, either, and gave a group of Banner Health hospitals summary judgment that the rule was...more
On February 22, 2016, in Regents of the University of California v. Burwell, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia granted summary judgment in favor of the Secretary of Health and Human Services (the Secretary)...more
On October 17, President Obama signed the bill titled the “Continuing Appropriations Act, 2014” (the “Act”) ending the 16-day government shutdown and lifting the nation’s debt limit. The Senate voted 81-18 in favor of the...more
Medicare claims processing activities continue during the shutdown. PRRB appeal deadlines, although temporarily suspended, will become due immediately on the day the government reopens. Federal court deadlines remain in...more