Six Massachusetts hospitals are suing the state, claiming it violated a law requiring health care providers be adequately reimbursed for caring for Medicaid and Medicare patients.
The six hospitals, which are known as “disproportionate share hospitals” because of their percentage of at least 63 of patients covered by public insurance. A spokesman for the Executive Office of Health and Human Services and the state recently increased payments to the hospitals by ten percent and is complying with the law.
The hospitals involved are the Berkshire Medical Center, Cape Cod Hospital, Holyoke Medical Center, Merrimack Valley Hospital, Quincy Medical Center and the Signature Healthcare Brockton Hospital.
The lawsuit will be filed tomorrow.
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