Woodstock/Kenosha Health Center v. Schweiker

HARLINGTON WOOD, Jr., Circuit Judge.

This matter is on appeal from the district court’s determination that the government is estopped to decertify the plaintiff, Woodstock/Kenosha Health Center, as a provider under the Medicaid program. Although we find that the district court properly had jurisdiction over both the plaintiff’s claim and the state’s cross-claim, we hold that the district court erroneously applied the law of equitable estoppel and reverse the grant of summary judgment in favor of the plaintiff.

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This case concerns a rather convoluted set of facts relating to the government’s…