Indian Health Service Ordered To Pay Hospital’s Contract Support Costs Request

Mealey's (June 1, 2022, 12:27 PM EDT) -- ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A New Mexico federal judge on May 26 issued an injunction directing U.S. health care agencies to pay an Indian hospital more than $16 million this year for contract support costs so the hospital can continue to provide “critical healthcare” to its patients, who are mostly Navajo Nation members, while the hospital’s suit against the agencies proceeds....