US hospitals ready to take legal route on outpatient reimbursement
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
US hospital groups are threatening to sue Medicare's administrators over a possible reduction in how new technology is reimbursed in outpatient hospital facilities. The American Hospital Association (AHA) claims the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service's (CMS) is violating the Administrative Procedure Act in the way it has gone about its rulemaking.