The Griffin Hospital v. The Commission on Hospitals and Health Care, Gardner Wright, Jr., Michael Fierri, and Nancy Watters

IRVING R. KAUFMAN, Circuit Judge:

Determined to combat the rising tide of medical costs, the Connecticut legislature in 1984 enacted a comprehensive hospital regulatory scheme. Conn.Gen.Stat. §§ 19a-164 to 19a-165q. Pursuant to this plan, the Connecticut Commission on Hospitals and Health Care (the “Commission”) is empowered to impose ceilings on the gross revenues of hospitals. The Griffin Hospital, a non-profit acute care facility, falls within the Commission’s regulatory ambit. On September 17, 1985, the agency issued a rate order for fiscal year 1986 to Griffin. The Commission’s directive,…