Texas Health & Human Services Commission v. El Paso County Hospital District

OPINION

BOB PEMBERTON, Justice.

Beginning in 2001, fourteen Texas hos- pitáis (the Hospitals) 1 initiated proceedings — first at the agency level, then in the courts — challenging the methodology used by the Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) in determining the rates under which the agency reimburses Texas hospitals for inpatient services provided to Medicaid insureds. Though unsuccessful before the agency and the lower courts, the Hospitals ultimately prevailed in the Texas Supreme Court. See El Paso Hosp. Dist. v. Texas Health & Human Servs. Comm’n, 247 S.W.3d 709 (Tex.2008) (the…