Oklahoma v. Shalala

STEPHEN H. ANDERSON, Circuit Judge.

This case involves the applicability of public notice requirements to a state Medicaid plan amendment. Oklahoma petitions for review of a final decision of the Administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration (“HCFA”), an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services, affirming the agency’s disapproval of the effective date of Oklahoma Medicaid state plan amendment 89-18. Petitioner State of Oklahoma argues that HCFA erroneously found (1) that an annual inflation increase in the State’s Medicaid rates to hospitals was a change in methods…