Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic v. Toumpas

ORDER

STEVEN J. McAULIFFE, District Judge.

A number of New Hampshire hospitals and two individuals seek an order prospectively enjoining the State’s Commissioner of Health and Human Services from enforcing significantly reduced reimbursement rates for medical care provided under the State’s Medicaid Program. The hospital and health care system plaintiffs are “providers” of medical care, and the individual plaintiffs are “beneficiaries” under the program.

Plaintiffs complain that, in several respects, the Commissioner ignored his clear obligations under federal law, both procedurally and…