GW Hospital sues HHS secretary for miscalculated Medicare payments

A nationwide network of hospitals that includes the GW Hospital is suing Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar for allegedly providing inadequate Medicare funding. In a 37-page complaint filed by 48 hospitals in the D.C. Superior Court Monday, District Hospital Partners – which operates the GW Hospital – alleges the department gave the hospitals insufficient Medicare payments because of a miscalculation of the number of days hospitals treated patients from fiscal years 2004 to 2014.