Loper Ruling May Boost Hospitals’ Chances In Latest DSH Case

The Supreme Court’s overturn of Chevron deference in June is expected to boost hospitals’ latest effort to get the federal D.C. district court to overturn CMS’ cuts to disproportionate share hospital payments, after the same court rejected similar arguments in a previous case when the Chevron doctrine was still in place. Daniel Hettich, a health care partner at King & Spalding specializing in Medicare reimbursement litigation, told Inside Health Policy that “the answer is pretty clearly yes”...