Baylor University Medical Center v. Heckler

Under Title XVIII of the Social Security Act (“Medicare Act”), 42 U.S.C. § 1395, et seq., hospitals providing health care services to Medicare patients are to be paid by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (“Secretary”) their *392reasonable costs in rendering routine services to Medicare patients. During administrative proceedings in this case and the resulting action in district court, Baylor University Medical Center and Harris Hospital-Methodist (“hospitals”) contended that they were not paid the full amount of reimbursement to which they were entitled for routine…