State’s top court rules against hospitals on Medicaid
The Supreme Judicial Court decided Friday that a dispute between hospitals and the state of Massachusetts over the adequacy of Medicaid payments is better resolved by the Legislature, as a lower court had suggested. Boston Medical Center had filed suit three years ago, saying the state had improperly cut payments to the hospital, which cares for a large number of poor patients. Holyoke Medical Center, Quincy Medical Center, and Brockton Hospital, all of which also serve large numbers of Medicaid patients, had joined a similar case and appealed a Superior Court decision that effectively dismissed the claims. The court decided Friday that the question of what payments are appropriate “rests in the political arena, not in the courts.’’
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