A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit brought by two dozen hospitals challenging their Medicare payments for fiscal years 2019-2021. Judge Royce Lamberth of the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Wednesday found the hospitals jumped the gun by filing suit before they had exhausted their administrative remedies. The lawsuit, brought by Saint Francis Medical Center of Peoria, Ill.; University of Chicago Medical Center; and 22 other hospitals, concerns the calculation of the “standardized amounts” used to determine their annual Medicare reimbursements.
