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- Title: Hutchins v. District of Columbia
- Author : District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals
- Release Date : January 18, 1999
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 116 KB
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Brought by the owners of Medicare-provider hospitals ("Hospitals") and the Secretary of Health and Human Services ("Secretary"), these cross-appeals present two issues. First, under the Medicare statute, must the Secretary provide hospitals with retroactive reimbursements to ensure that aggregate outlier payments during any given fiscal year meet minimum statutory targets? And second, has the Secretary adequately explained why, when calculating outlier thresholds for fiscal years 1985-1986, she relied on a 1981 database instead of more contemporaneous records from 1984 Medicare discharges? Finding that Congress had spoken directly and unambiguously to the first question, the district court granted partial summary judgment to the Hospitals. With respect to the second issue, however, the court perceived nothing unreasonable in the Secretarys choice of data, and entered judgment accordingly for the Secretary. Because we disagree with the district court on both points, we now reverse.
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