HHS Issues Status Report In Decade-Old Medicare Coverage Row Over Hospital Stays

(September 3, 2024, 11:17 AM EDT) -- NEW HAVEN, Conn. — The secretary of Health and Human Services filed a status report in a Connecticut federal court regarding progress in implementing a final rule to comply with a court order and injunction in a long-running class action in which a district court in 2020 allowed a portion of a class of Medicare beneficiaries placed on observation status after being admitted to the hospital as inpatients to appeal their denial of coverage....