September 28, 2016
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services was right to bar Central Maine Medical Center from amending its appeal of how much it should have been reimbursed by Medicare in 2007 because the wrong organization submitted the request, a Maine federal judge ruled Wednesday.
December 12, 2014
Sylvia Burwell, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, urged a Maine federal judge on Friday to throw out a suit accusing the department of improperly denying Medicare reimbursement payments to a Lewiston-based hospital, saying an administrative appeals board still hasn't made a final decision on the reimbursements.
September 29, 2014
A Maine medical center sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in federal court on Friday, arguing the Affordable Care Act prohibits HHS from blocking some payments for medical residents who work in private physicians' offices and other off-site rotations.