Medicare & Medicaid

Judges to determine whether hospitals, doctors can sue over inequality in reimbursement rates.

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission has recommended a 3.5 percent increase in the rates paid for inpatient and outpatient hospital procedures in 2016. The group also wants to level the field between what is paid to hospitals and physician offices.

Health system will cut its workforce of 90,500 by 1.7 percent amid some hefty losses incurred in the expansion.

Providers and patient advocates are deeply worried about a case that they say could restrict their ability across the country to seek judicial relief from low Medicaid reimbursement rates.