White Plains Nursing Home v. Whalen

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court at Special Term, entered October 9, 1975 in Albany County, which granted petitioner’s application, in a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78, to vacate a determination of the health department. The present controversy arises from a determination by the appellants to lower the petitioner’s Medicaid reimbursement rate. The determination was based upon a finding that a contract between petitioner and Cambridge Care Center to provide nursing care for petitioner was not an arm’s length transaction. Significantly, included in the lowered 1975 rates was…