TUCSON MEDICAL CENTER v. HECKLER

Civ. A. Nos. 84-2437, 84-2496, 84-3484, 85-0729 and 85-0766.

611 F.Supp. 823 (1985)

TUCSON MEDICAL CENTER, Plaintiff, v. Margaret M. HECKLER, Defendant. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA GENERAL HOSPITAL, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Margaret M. HECKLER, Defendant. GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Margaret M. HECKLER, Defendant. CAPITOL HILL HOSPITAL, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Margaret M. HECKLER, Defendant. WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Margaret M. HECKLER, Defendant.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

June 19, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald N. Sutter, Powers, Pyles, Sutter & O'Hare, Washington, D.C., for plaintiffs.

Joseph DiGenova, U.S. Atty., Royce C. Lamberth, Asst. U.S. Atty., Stephen B. Weiss, Atty., Health Care Financing and Human Development Services Div., Office of the General Counsel, Department of Health & Human Services, Washington, D.C., for defendant.


MEMORANDUM

OBERDORFER, District Judge.

I.

For cost reporting years before October 1, 1983, Medicare1 applied its "cost reimbursement system" to repay hospitals that had furnished inpatient services to Medicare patients. Under this system, Medicare determined the "reasonable cost" of the inpatient services that a hospital had provided to patients, and then reimbursed the...

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