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BAKER COUNTY MEDICAL SERVICES v. U.S. ATTY. GEN.

No. 13-13917.

763 F.3d 1274 (2014)

BAKER COUNTY MEDICAL SERVICES, INC., Ed Fraser Memorial Hospital, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL, Director, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement, Office of Detention and Removal, U.S. Marshal William B. Berger, Sr., United States Marshals Service, Prisoner & Operations Division, Programs and Assistance Branch, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

August 14, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John D. Buchanan, Jr. , Miriam Rebekkah Coles , Dawn Marie McMahon , Henry Buchanan Hudson Suber & Carter, PA, Tallahassee, FL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Keith Ian McManus , Jonathan Gordon Cooper , Alisa Beth Klein, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before JORDAN, Circuit Judge, and RYSKAMP and BERMAN, District Judges.

JORDAN, Circuit Judge.

The federal government bears a constitutional "obligation to provide medical care for those whom it is punishing by incarceration." Estelle v. Gamble, 429 U.S. 97, 103, 97 S.Ct. 285, 50 L.Ed.2d 251 (1976). Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 4006(b)(1), Congress has elected to impose the Medicare rate as full compensation for medical services rendered to federal detainees.

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