Protestant Memorial Medical Center, Inc. v. Maram

RIPPLE, Circuit Judge.

Protestant Memorial Medical Center, Inc., doing business as Memorial Hospital (“Memorial”), brought this action against Barry S. Maram, the director of the Illinois Department of Public Aid (now known as the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services) (“Department”) and a federal agency, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”). The complaint alleged that the defendants had violated the Constitution of the United States and the Medicaid statutes, 42 U.S.C. § 1396 et seq., when they approved and implemented a 2004 amendment to the State of…