Connecticut Hospital Ass'n v. Weicker

JACOBS, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs Connecticut Hospital Association and 33 of its member hospitals, all acute care facilities (collectively “the hospitals”), allege that Connecticut’s program for reimbursement of Medicaid hospital charges violates a provision in the Medicaid Act (the “Act”), and thereby short-changes them. The United States District Court for the District of Connecticut (Eginton, J.) bifurcated the proceedings, hearing first the hospitals’ allegation that the state’s program violates a procedural requirement of the Act, and reserving for later proceedings the various…