SEATTLE: State hospitals’ court bid for reimbursement fails
THE NEWS TRIBUNE
Large hospitals in Washington state have lost a bid to have the federal government give them millions of dollars in additional reimbursements for certain low-income patients.
U.S. District Judge Richard A. Jones said the patients properly were not included in a complicated formula that determines Medicare reimbursements to hospitals.
The University of Washington Medical Center and 17 other large hospitals in Washington sued in an effort to obtain about $31 million in reimbursements for patients treated from 1994-2000. The state paid the hospitals some money for treating those patients, who aren’t eligible for Medicaid or Social Security, but the hospitals contended that the federal government should have paid more.
The Associated Press
