On Monday, June 3, 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a Court of Appeals ruling that stated a 2014 regulation of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) – that reduced DSH payments to hospitals servicing indigent patients – should be removed for failure to follow proper notice and comment requirements. 

On Tuesday, March 12, 2019, a three-judge panel of the Arizona Appeals Court held that Arizona statutes that allowed hospitals to impose liens on Arizona Medicaid recipients who suffered accidents in order to recover the difference between the Medicaid payments and the hospitals’ costs violated Federal law. 

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