Litigation
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
AHA reply brief in case to prevent disclosure of negotiated contracts (Feb. 28, 2020).
In September 2019, this Court issued a decision finding portions of the CMS rulemaking governing Medicare payments for hospital outpatient services for Calendar Year (CY) 2019 to be ultra vires, vacating those portions of the 2019 Final Rule. CMS filed a motion to modify the Court’s order to permit…