New England Memorial Hospital v. Rate Setting Commission

The plaintiffs (hospitals) challenge the validity of 114.1 Code Mass. Regs. § 3.06 (1981) (the amended regulation), 3 promulgated by the defendant Rate Setting Commission (commission), which established a reimbursement rate to hospitals under the Medicaid program. 4 The hospitals sought to have the amended regulation declared void and to obtain Medicaid payments of which the regulation allegedly deprived them. A Superior Court judge granted the hospitals’ motion for partial summary judgment on the issue of liability. Another Superior Court judge then entered a judgment declaring the amended…