The US owes a Texas hospital about $6.5 million for testing and treating uninsured people for Covid-19, according to a federal court complaint.
The Department of Health and Human Services and the Health Resources and Services Administration arbitrarily refused to reimburse Sana Healthcare Carrollton for 285 claims made on a day when a technical glitch in an HHS payment portal resulted in their denial, the hospital says in a complaint filed Thursday in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.
Massachusetts hospitals that serve disproportionate numbers of patients on Medicaid or who lack health insurance are pressing to block or delay nearly $630 million in federal funding cuts that were originally enacted in 2010 as part of the Affordable Care Act.
Fairview Health Services saw its operating loss narrow in the second quarter as the health system saw stronger revenue growth and spent less on highly paid "traveling" nurses to fill staffing gaps.
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences confirmed Wednesday that it had an operating loss of $30 million for its 2023 fiscal year, from July 1, 2022, until May 31, 2023, and that it was laying off 51 positions effective Sept. 7.