Hackensack Meridian Health Files a Lawsuit in Response to Supreme Court’s Decision to Overturn Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council

Hackensack Meridian Health, New Jersey’s largest and most comprehensive health network, announced that the health network filed a lawsuit Friday in response to the Supreme Court decision to overturn Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council. 

The plaintiffs in the case are Hackensack Meridian Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack Meridian Jersey Shore University Medical Center, and Hackensack Meridian Raritan Bay Medical Center.

The lawsuit challenges the interpretation of Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) administration of the Medicare statutes, which has deprived hospitals of some of the reimbursements they are due and the data to  check their reimbursement rates. The lawsuit also challenges CMS’s refusal to enable hospitals to effectively employ the congressionally mandated procedures for obtaining relief from these underpayments.