Board of Regents of Florida v. Califano

GODBOLD, Circuit Judge:

This case involves a dispute between a hospital which serves as a provider of health services under the Medicare Program, 42 U.S.C. §§ 1395 et seq., and the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW), concerning the amount of reimbursement that the hospital is entitled to receive from Medicare for some of its “educational costs.”

The hospital is Shands Teaching Hospital and Clinic, a part of the University of Florida Medical School, a 300-bed facility for treatment and for the training of doctors, dentists, nurses, pharmacists and persons in related professions.…