Recent Court Decision May Impact Some Hospitals’ 340B Eligibility

by Admin | April 2, 2013 9:54 am

April 2, 2013—A recent ruling in the ongoing legal battle over how to calculate safety-net hospitals’ disproportionate share (DSH) percentages could affect some hospitals’ participation in the 340B drug discount program.

In its March 27 decision[1] in Metropolitan Hospital v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit upheld a 2004 Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) regulation that includes days for dual-eligible patients who have exhausted their Medicare Part A benefits in the Supplemental Security Income (SSI)/Medicare fraction of a hospital’s DSH percentage. 

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Source URL: https://340binformed.org/2013/04/recent-court-decision-may-impact-some-hospitals-340b-eligibility/

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