Jeanes Hospital v. Secretary of Health & Human Services

OPINION OF THE COURT

FISHER, Circuit Judge.

Jeanes Hospital (“Jeanes”) appeals from the order of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania granting summary judgment in favor of appellee Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (“Secretary”). The District Court affirmed the decision of the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“Administrator” or “CMS”) denying Jeanes’s claim for reimbursement based on depreciation losses realized as the result of a statutory merger. For the reasons stated…