Mount Loretto Nursing Home, Inc. v. Perales

OPINION OF THE COURT

Crew III, J.

Petitioner is a not-for-profit residential health-care facility located in Montgomery County and is a participant in the Medicaid program. The Department of Health (hereinafter DOH) is responsible for determining the methodology to be used in setting Medicaid reimbursement rates for such a facility (Public Health Law §2807). The rate of reimbursement for a given year is determined by ascertaining a facility’s allowable costs for a particular year (the base year), dividing the total of those allowable costs by the number of patient days of care provided during…