American Hospital Assn. v. Becerra

Decided June 15, 2022. Brett M. Kavanaugh delivered the opinion of the Court.

Docket 20-1114 · 596 U.S. 724 (2022) · Cited 22 times

Holding

The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 does not preclude judicial review of the reimbursement rates set by the Department of Health and Human Services for certain outpatient prescription drugs that hospitals provide to Medicare patients; in this case, because HHS did not conduct a survey of hospitals’ acquisition costs in 2018 and 2019, its decision to vary reimbursement rates only for 340B hospitals in those years was unlawful.

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How the Justices voted

Decided 9–0.

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Precedents cited

Supreme Court decisions this opinion relies on, ordered by how often it cites each. Cases in our collection link through; others are named.

• MacH Mining, LLC v. Equal Emp't Opportunity Comm'n · 575 U.S. 480 (2015)
• Russello v. United States · 464 U.S. 16 (1983)
• Whitman v. American Trucking Assns., Inc. · 531 U.S. 457 (2001)
• United States v. Detroit Timber & Lumber Co. · 200 U.S. 321 (1906)

Official text

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