Anna Jacques Hospital v. Sebelius

MEMORANDUM OPINION

AMY BERMAN JACKSON, United States District Judge

Forty-one hospitals have sued the Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) challenging her calculation of the “wage index” for their geographic area under the Medicare Act. Specifically, they complain that the Secretary improperly included two hospitals located outside their geographic area, the Boston-Quincy Core-Based Statistical Area (“CBSA”), when calculating the wage index for that CBSA for fiscal years (“FY”) 2006 and 2007. This resulted in lower Medicare payments to the plaintiffs…