Legal Opinion
Saint Mary's Hosp. v. Tommy Thompson
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided July 28, 2005No. 03-3905PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
BEAM, Circuit Judge.
St. Mary’s Hospital and the Rochester Memorial Hospital filed suit in the district court against the Secretary of Health and Human Services. The suit sought review of the Secretary’s denial of the hospitals’ claim for approximately $4.1 million in Medicare reimbursements. The district court granted the Secretary’s motion for summary judgment. The hospitals appeal and we affirm.
I. BACKGROUND
A. The Medicare Scheme
1. DRG Payments and Bundling
Medicare is health insurance funded by the federal government for the aged and disabled. Before 1983, the government…
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