Catholic Health Initiatives Iowa Corp. v. Sebelius

Opinion for the Court filed by Senior Circuit Judge SILBERMAN.

SILBERMAN, Senior Circuit Judge:

Catholic Health Initiatives challenged a decision of the Secretary of Health and Human Services denying certain Medicare reimbursements that Catholic Health believed it was owed under the Medicare statute. The district court held that the Secretary’s decision was unlawful because the agency, in calculating reimbursements owed for a 1997 cost-reporting period, had retroactively applied a 2004 rulemaking without congressional authorization. We reverse. The policy on which the agency relied in this case…