Sarasota Memorial Hospital v. Shalala

DUBINA, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs/Appellants, four hospitals in the Sarasota, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area (“MSA”), appeal from the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of the Secretary of Health and Human Services (“the Secretary”) denying the hospitals’ claim that they were entitled to an adjustment to the wage index that was used to calculate their Medicare reimbursement payments for fiscal years 1986 through 1988. The district court’s order specifically upheld the Secretary’s determination that Social Security payments paid by one of the hospitals, Sarasota Memorial…