St. Francis Medical Center v. Shewry

Opinion

BLEASE, Acting P. J.

St. Francis Medical Center (St. Francis) appeals from the judgment that denied its petition for a writ of administrative mandamus (Code Civ. Proc., § 1094.5), which sought to set aside a final decision of the Director of the Department of Health Services (Department).

The Department’s decision reversed the proposed decision of an administrative law judge (ALJ) and found that St. Francis owed $1,742,632 in overpayments for inpatient services rendered by St. Francis’s neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1994, 1995 and 1996.

St.…