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Cite as:  596 U. S. ____ (2022) 

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acquisition costs.  See §1395l(t)(14)(D).  Finally, HHS’s argument that 
Congress  could  not  have  intended  for  the  agency  to  “overpay”  340B 
hospitals for prescription drugs ignores the fact that Congress, when 
enacting the statute, was well aware that 340B hospitals paid less for
covered  prescription  drugs.  It  may  be  that  the  reimbursement  pay-
ments  were  intended  to  offset  the  considerable  costs  of  providing
healthcare to the uninsured and underinsured in low-income and rural 
communities.  Regardless, this Court is not the forum to resolve that 
policy debate.  Pp. 9–14. 

967 F. 3d 818, reversed and remanded. 

KAVANAUGH, J., delivered the opinion for a unanimous Court.