Mercy Hospital, Inc. v. Alex M. Azar II

Griffith, Circuit Judge *1064 The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), a division of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), administers Medicare reimbursements to eligible hospitals that provide inpatient rehabilitation services. The Administrator of CMS declined to hear Mercy Hospital's challenge to its reimbursement rate for fiscal years 2002 through 2004 because he interpreted a statutory provision that precluded administrative and judicial review of the reimbursement rate to also preclude review of the underlying formula that helped determine that rate. Mercy Hospital…