University Hospital v. New York State Department of Health

— Harvey, J.

Petitioner is a 350-bed acute care hospital located in Onondaga County. By letter dated May 30, 1984, petitioner appealed its 1984 Medicaid, Medicare and Blue Cross reimbursement rates to respondent Department of Health (hereinafter respondent) on various grounds, including a challenge to the grouping methodology used by respondent to establish the ceiling for certain of its reimbursable costs.1 According to petitioner, its "bed size, academic intensity and patient mix make it impossible to be grouped with any other Upstate Teaching Hospital”. Petitioner requested that it be…