Editor
The Supreme Court on Friday dealt a blow to safety-net hospitals’ Medicare rate calculation.
The high court resolved a years-long fight between the Health and Human Services Department and the hospital industry by ruling the agency appropriately interpreted Medicare law when it changed a formula for calculating safety-net payments in 2005.
The 5-4 decision, authored by Justice Elena Kagan, reverses a decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for…
