United States v. Bellevue Hospital, Inc.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

MAZZONE, District Judge.

The United States brought this action to enforce an administrative decision to recoup Medicare overpayments from the defendant nursing home. Bellevue Hospital, Inc. was a provider of medical services in 1967 and 1968 under Part A of Title XVIII of the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 1395c-1395i. As a “provider of services,” 42 *782U.S.C. § 1895x(u), it was to be reimbursed for the “reasonable cost” of its services to Medicare patients by federal money channeled through a fiscal intermediary, 42 U.S.C. § 1395h, in this case the Blue Cross Association.…