Washington Regional Medicorp v. Sebelius

MEMORANDUM OPINION

CHRISTOPHER R. COOPER, United States District Judge

Fayetteville City Hospital, an Arkansas inpatient psychiatric facility, challenges the method used by the Secretary of Health and Human Services to calculate the hospital’s reimbursement for services it provided to Medicare patients in the two years after statutory caps on reimbursements expired in 2002. Because the relevant provisions of the Medicare statute, 42 U.S.C. § 1395 et seq., required the Secretary’s calculation method and, alternatively, because she reasonably interpreted the statute and its implementing…