The U.S. Supreme Court has issued a significant ruling affecting hospitals that serve low-income Medicare beneficiaries, narrowing the interpretation of the Disproportionate Share Hospital (“DSH”) payment formula. In...more
Last week, the Supreme Court issued its opinion in Advocate Christ Medical Center v. Kennedy, siding with the government and holding that, for purposes of the Medicare disproportionate share hospital (DSH) calculation,...more
Auguring a flood of opinions in the remaining weeks of the term, the Supreme Court decided five cases today. Some of them offer support for the media/popular equation of a political party background with jurisprudential...more
Boechler, P.C. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, No. 20-1472: This case involves the application of “equitable tolling” in tax “collection due process” cases. This case arose after the IRS sustained a proposed levy on the...more
On April 21, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court decided United States v. Vaello Madero, No. 20-303, holding that the Fifth Amendment’s Due Process Clause does not require Congress to make Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits...more
Today, the Supreme Court of the United States granted certiorari in two cases: United States v. Vaello-Madero, No. 20-303: Whether Congress violated the equal-protection component of the Due Process Clause of the Fifth...more
On July 29, 2020, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York issued a nationwide injunction that temporarily suspends the implementation of the Trump Administration’s public charge rule. Under U.S....more