Court Tells HHS To Justify Two Midnight-Based Hospital Payment Cuts, Re-Open Comments

A federal district court has given HHS until Oct. 1 to meet with hospitals to come up with a time table to re-issue a Medicare rule that contained a controversial two-midnights hospital inpatient admissions policy in order to give hospitals more opportunity to comment, according to the American Hospital Association. HHS denied hospitals and other stakeholders a chance to meaningfully comment on the 0.2 percent cut that accompanied the two-midnights hospital inpatient admission policy, the Washington D.C. district court ruled...