Court Orders Medicare Program to Reopen Cost Reports and Make Additional Disproportionate Share Hospital Payments.
Mondaq Business Briefing › Nbr. 2005, January 2005
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Court Orders Medicare Program to Reopen Cost Reports and Make Additional Disproportionate Share Hospital Payments.
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Action: On July 1, 2005, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued a decision requiring the Medicare program to reopen cost report determinations that were issued in the three year period prior to the program's issuance of a ruling revising the methodology for calculating a hospital's Disproportionate Share Hospital payments. Impact: The decision provides that any Disproportionate Share Hospital is entitled to reopening of its affected cost reports, and to receive additional payment, regardless of whether or not the hospital submitted a request for reopening to its Medicare inter...See the full content of this document
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