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黑料正能量 Association legal documents.
Plaintiffs, a collection of hospitals, hospital associations, and healthcare providers, have brought this action against the Department of Health and Human Services (鈥淗HS鈥) and Secretary of HHS Alex M. Azar II, in his official capacity, arguing that HHS鈥檚 decision to continue to delay鈥
Memorandum Opinion
This case is now before the Court for a third time, following a second remand from the D.C. Circuit. Plaintiffs here are the 黑料正能量 Association and three other regional hospitals and health-care systems. Fed up by the delays in the administrative-appeals process for鈥
Defendants moved for a stay of this case pending the resolution of a planned rulemaking in which the Department of Health and Human Services would propose that the 340B Drug Pricing Rule take effect on January 1, 2019.
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AHA v. The Department of Health and Human Services Reply in Support of Defendants' Motion for a Stay
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
THE AMERICAN HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION, et al., Plaintiffs,
v.
THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, et al., Defendants.
No. 1:18-cv-02112-JDB
REPLY IN SUPPORT OF DEFENDANTS鈥 MOTION FOR A STAY
Plaintiffs' Memorandum in Opposition to Defendants' Motion to Stay
This action challenges Defendants' protracted delays in implementing 2010 amendments to 42 USC 256b, which governs the program by which hospitals, community health centers, and other federally funded clinics that disproportionately鈥
Defendants hereby request that the Court (1) stay this case pending the outcome of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' planned rulemaking that may moot the case or limit the issues to be decided by the Court, or in the alternative, (2) stay briefing of plaintiffs' early summary鈥
Plaintiffs essentially allege that they have a statutory entitlement to a government-funded windfall with every drug purchase they make through the 340B Program, and that the Secretary erred by decreasing the amount of the windfall in the final 2018 OPPS Rule. See, e.g., Plaintiffs' Reply in鈥
THE AMERICAN HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION, et al., Plaintiffs, -v- ALEX M. AZAR II, in his official capacity as the Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al., Defendants. Case No. 18-cv-2084 (RC)
Legal documents related to the government's motion to dismiss filed on Sept. 14, 2018.
September 11, 2018: The AHA, Association of American Medical Colleges, America鈥檚 Essential Hospitals, 340B Health and three hospital systems today asked a federal court to order the Department of Health and Human Services to make effective within 30 days a final rule requiring drug companies to鈥