Jewish Memorial Hospital v. Whalen

OPINION OF THE COURT

Jones, J.

The regulations governing the formulas and rates of reimbursement by Blue Cross for hospital care and services adopted by the Commissioner of Health on May 28, 1976 (and the individual reimbursement rates thereafter promulgated thereunder) were validly made applicable to all care and services rendered after January 1, 1976. Additionally no warrant has been shown to set aside in particular the specific regulation that imposed a limit on the individual hospital’s base-year expenses (used for computing reimbursement rate) of 100% of the average base-year expenses of…