Print HHS has been underpaying teaching hospitals that train physician residents for years because its method for divvying up funds is flawed, a group of hospitals assert in a new lawsuit against the federal government. The plaintiffs want the court to nullify HHS regulations that govern how federal authorities determine how much Medicare direct graduate medical education (GME) funding to allocate to academic medical centers. Fourteen teaching hospitals, including Arizona-based Banner Health, Memorial Hermann Medical Center in Houston, Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, and Yale New Haven Hospital in New Haven, Connecticut, filed a complaint to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Monday.