Intermountain Healthcare v. OptumHealth

Senior Judge RUSSELL W. BENCH

authored this Opinion,

in which Judges GREGORY K. ORME and STEPHEN L ROTH concurred. 1

Opinion

BENCH, Senior Judge:

¶1 Intermountain Healthcare (IHC) seeks review of the Department of Health, Division of Medicaid and Health Financing's (DMHF) decision that IHC is entitled to payment for only three of a patient's eighteen days of inpatient psychiatric care at an IHC facility. We set aside DMHF""s decision and remand for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.

BACKGROUND

¶ 2 The patient is a Medicaid recipient who was involuntarily committed to an IHC facility…