Legal Opinion
Forrest General Hospital v. Alex Azar, Secr
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided June 10, 2019No. 18-60227PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DON R. WILLETT, Circuit Judge:
One tricky area of America's uniquely complex healthcare "system" is the labyrinth of acronyms and formulae that govern Medicare funding. In this appeal, two Mississippi hospitals insist that the federal government skimped on their Disproportionate Share Hospital (or DSH-pronounced "dish") payments-special funding to institutions serving large numbers of indigent patients. To determine if the hospitals were rightly compensated, we must determine if a certain DSH-related fraction-specifically the numerator-was rightly calculated. The answer, though, turns less on…
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