Congress of California Seniors v. Catholic Healthcare West

Opinion

VOGEL (Miriam A.), J.

Hospitals, doctors and others who provide services to Medicare beneficiaries are reimbursed based in part upon annual cost reports filed by the providers to conform to the Medicare statute and a variety of federal rules and regulations. Those cost reports are at the heart of this case, in which the primary plaintiff is a union and the primary defendant is a hospital at which there appears to be an ongoing effort to unionize the hospital’s employees. The union claims the hospital has included in its annual cost reports certain “anti-union” expenses that the union…