Tallahassee Memorial Regional Medical Center v. Lewis

Two regional referral hospitals appeal the lower court’s final judgment which dissolved its alternative writ of mandamus and upheld the comptroller’s authority to conduct an independent hearing of limited scope notwithstanding appellants’ certification which had stated that a “responsible county” was delinquent in its payment for services rendered by the appellants to indigents from that county pursuant to Section 154.314, Florida Statutes (1979). It is the position of the appellants that the comptroller had no authority to conduct such a hearing and that mandamus should lie to compel the…