Hospitals can recover billions of dollars in drug payments under Supreme Court ruling

The Supreme Court said the US Department of Health and Human Services illegally cut for-profit drug subsidies for some hospitals. hospitals that disputed trick.

The unanimous decision on Wednesday reverses the two-year cut that was launched in 2018 as a centerpiece of the Trump administration’s health-policy agenda. The cuts sharply reduced federal subsidies under a program known as 340B designed to help hospitals that care for large numbers of uninsured patients.