April 11, 2014
The D.C. Circuit on Friday upheld a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services decision denying hospital system Dignity Health a Medicare payment for allegedly inadequate depreciation taken by a hospital that it acquired, ruling the merger didn't qualify for reimbursement.
September 13, 2013
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services was wrong to deny a Medicare reimbursement to a Santa Maria, Calif.-based hospital after its merger with hospital firm Catholic Healthcare West because the consideration for the merger was fair, the firm told the D.C. Circuit on Thursday.