Commonwealth, Cabinet for Health & Family Services v. Saint Joseph Health System, Inc.

OPINION

COMBS, JUDGE:

The Commonwealth of Kentucky, Cabinet for Health and Family Services (“CHFS”) (and its included agency, the Department for Medicaid Services (“DMS”)) appeals from an order of the Franklin Circuit Court entered August 7, 2015 addressing CHFS’s practice of reimbursing Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs)1 *579for outpatient laboratory services provided to Medicaid patients at the reduced level designated as the Medicare technical component rate, rather than the full Medicare reimbursement rate of 101% pursuant to KRS2 216.380(13). For the following reasons, we affirm.

I. Factual and…