Legal Opinion
Universal Health Services Inc. v. Thompson
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided April 13, 2004No. 02-56611PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SCHWARZER, Senior District Judge:
These actions challenge the rates at which the government reimbursed hospitals participating in Medicare for certain inpatient treatment expenses during the fiscal years (FYs) 1991 to 1996. The plaintiffs are seventy-nine hospitals and two healthcare corporations (collectively, hospitals) who contend that the Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (the Secretary) acted in an arbitrary and capricious fashion in setting the thresholds for so-called “outlier payments” by which hospitals are reimbursed for patients with abnormally…
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- United States v. Michael JohnsonCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2001
- Mills v. Social SecurityCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 2001
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