National Medical Enterprises, Inc. v. Shalala

Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge SENTELLE.

SENTELLE, Circuit Judge:

National Medical Enterprises, Inc., doing business as Century City Hospital (the “Hospital”), appeals a decision of the district court granting the Secretary of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), Donna Shalala (the “Secretary”), summary judgment on the Hospital’s challenge to her decision approving the reclassification of the Hospital’s labor costs associated with the administration of intravenous (“IV”) therapy to a “routine” care cost center from an “ancillary” cost center. Because the district court properly…