Adirondack Medical Center v. Sylvia Mathews Burwell

The Medicare program provides federally funded healthcare to the elderly and the disabled. See Title XVIII of the Social Security Act, Pub.L. No. 89-97, 79 Stat. 291 (1965), as amended, 42 U.S.C. § 1395 et seq. Under a “complex statutory and regulatory regime” called Medicare Part A, the Government reimburses participating hospitals for care that they provide to inpatient Medicare beneficiaries. Good Samaritan Hosp. v. Shalala, 508 U.S. 402, 404, 113 S.Ct. 2151, 124 L.Ed.2d 368 (1993). “[T]he labyrinthine world of Medicare has two types of hospitals that enjoy different reimbursement…