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Introduction
Plaintiffs鈥 opening brief explained the clear limits that Congress imposed on the ability of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to change Medicare payment rates for hospital outpatient clinic visit services from year to year: The agency may make targeted cuts to鈥
MINUTE ORDER resetting the briefing schedule after consideration of the parties' response to the Court's February 27, 2019 Minute Order.
The parties to the above-referenced related actions respectfully submit this response to this Court鈥檚 minute order of February 27, 2019, which directed the parties to 鈥渟ubmit a proposed schedule for consolidated dispositive briefing or show good cause why such briefing should not be consolidated.鈥濃
Following a December 17, 2018 status conference, the Court issued a minute order requiring defendants to "file [a] status report[] pertaining to their progress in publishing pricing data by not later than February 28, 2019 . . . ." Minute Order, Dec. 18, 2018. Consistent with their representations鈥
In a highly unusual filing, Defendants seek to defend the 2019 OPPS Rule with arguments that Defendants forthrightly acknowledge the Court has already rejected. See Gov鈥檛 Mem. in Supp. of Mot to Dismiss New Claim & Opp鈥檔 to Mot. for Perm. Inj. With Respect to 2019 OPPS Rule (鈥淕ov鈥檛 Mot.鈥), ECF鈥
The Court concluded that the defendants 鈥 the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and its Secretary (referred to collectively throughout as 鈥渢he Agency鈥) 鈥 acted in an ultra vires fashion by reducing the payment rate for drugs purchased through the 340B Program in the 2018 Outpatient鈥
In November 2018, Defendants issued a regulation requiring that, for calendar year 2019, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) reimburse drugs purchased under section 340B of the Public Health Services Act ("340B drugs") by using a methodology based on Average Sales Price minus 22.鈥