Cleveland Memorial Hospital, Inc. v. Califano

MEMORANDUM OF DECISION and ORDER

DUPREE, District Judge.

Plaintiffs, North Carolina hospitals that have provided services to Medicare beneficiaries pursuant to agreements with the defendant Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, seek judicial review of a refusal by the Provider Reimbursement Review Board to consider their reimbursement claims as a “group appeal” under 42 U.S.C. § 1395oo (b). The Provider Reimbursement Review Board held that the jurisdictional amount requirement of the statute had not been satisfied.

Plaintiffs are medical care providers (hereinafter providers) as defined in…