In a major win for providers that serve a disproportionate share of indigent patients, the Supreme Court today upheld the D.C. Circuit’s earlier decision invalidating CMS’s policy to treat beneficiaries enrolled in Part C...more
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Last week, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit issued a consolidated opinion for three cases in which it upheld the methodology that CMS used to calculate the volume decrease adjustment (VDA) for...more
The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit recently held in Saint Francis Medical Center v. Azar that Medicare’s reopening regulation, which prohibits providers from seeking to revise payment...more