American Hospital Association et al., v. Azar

This complaint was filed on December 4, 2018, by the American Hospital Association, the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) and three hospitals as co-plaintiffs: Olympic Medical Center in Port Angeles, Washington; Mercy Health in Muskegon, Michigan; and York Hospital in York, Maine. The plaintiffs sued the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) over the CMS plan to implement site-neutral Medicare reimbursement for outpatient clinic visits. CMS intends to pay the same rate for a clinic visit in the hospital outpatient setting in the physician office setting. Currently, Medicare pays more for a visit in the . . .