On Thursday, January 7, 2021, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia held that the Provider Reimbursement Review Board of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) lacked jurisdiction to consider hospitals’ objections to adjustments to some of their Medicare reimbursements carried out by the Secretary of DHHS.

On Friday, December 4, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal of the Trump administration’s attempted plan to require work requirements in the Medicaid program.

On Monday, July 6, 2020, the U.S District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin held that the United States Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) is allowed to deny Medicare payment for a brain cancer patient’s treatment despite approval of similar claims by an administrative law judge (ALJ), because ALJ decisions are not binding on the agency. 

On Wednesday, December 4, 2019, several hospitals and the American Hospital Association filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., to overturn a rule issued in November by the United States Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) that would require hospitals to disclose the private discounted prices they give to insurers for many procedures.