Park Ridge Hospital, Inc. v. Richardson

OPINION OF THE COURT

Wilmer J. Patlow, J.

This is a declaratory judgment action commenced by Park Ridge Hospital to recover from Medicaid the cost of the medical treatment given two elderly patients claimed by the hospital to be indigent. Plaintiff admitted each patient from its emergency room following the effects of a stroke.

*284More specifically, plaintiff hospital seeks the sum of $227,273.22 for the care and treatment of one Lillian Lewis from October 12, 1986 through October 28, 1986 and again from November 12, 1986 until June 13, 1988, the date of her death.

Additionally, the hospital seeks…