District court rules AHA can file amicus brief in case challenging Aetna’s ‘level of severity’ policy

The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Aug. 5 granted a motion for the AHA and the Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania to file an amicus brief submitted in June in support of Jefferson Health’s challenge to Aetna’s “level of severity” reimbursement policy. The policy is a reimbursement for “low severity” inpatient stays that Aetna said will be “comparable” to observation rates. Aetna moved to have Jefferson Health’s case decided in arbitration rathe...

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