Hospitals sue HHS to recoup adjusted DSH payments

The federal government owes tens of millions of dollars to dozens of safety-net hospitals for alleged delays in correcting  Medicare disproportionate share hospital payments, hospitals alleged in a new lawsuit.

Nearly four dozen hospitals in California, Arizona, Nevada, Hawaii and Minnesota filed the suit Tuesday against the Health and Human Services Department Secretary Xavier Becerra in a Washington, D.C., federal court. While regulators…