On Monday, May 17, 2021, Judge Timothy Kelly of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia issued a decision setting aside a regulatory formula CMS has adopted to.
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On May 17, 2021, the US District Court for the District of Columbia granted summary judgment in favor of a group of teaching hospitals that claimed CMS unlawfully reduced the weights of fellows and other residents training beyond their initial residency periods when calculating the plaintiff hospitals’ direct GME reimbursement. Siding with the hospitals, Judge Timothy J. Kelly held in
Milton S. Hershey Medical Center et al., v. Becerra, No. 19-2680, that a Medicare regulation that effectively changes the statutory weighting factors assigned to residents and fellows is unlawful as applied to calculate the plaintiffs’ direct GME reimbursement, because it contravenes the plain language of the Medicare statute.
Jacintha s wall pops up overnight at Hershey Medical Center
Jacintha Clark puts the final touches on one of the murals she has painted in the Pediatric Specialty Unit in the University Physician Center.
Image: Penn State Health Jacintha s wall pops up overnight at Hershey Medical Center
Carolyn Kimmel
May 12, 2021
During the past year, staff and visitors to Penn State Health Pediatric Specialties in the University Physician Center might have felt like they suddenly fell into the pages of E.B. White’s literary classic, “Charlotte’s Web.”
Because just like the astounded members of Fern Arable’s family who gazed upon words spun into a spider web overnight, staff and patients were wowed by new artwork that greeted them on waiting room and exam room walls.
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