United States Fifth Circuit

Section 413.153 and 413.17 of the Medicare Regulations, which define related-parties and control, for purposes of hospital reimbursement of interest expenses on capital indebtedness from the purchase of its hospital facility, are valid under the Medicare statutes.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/12/2001
• Published 12/12/2001

Judges

• EMILIO M. GARZA, Circuit Judge:, Before KING, Chief Judge, and JOLLY and EMILIO M. GARZA, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• J.D. Epstein (argued), Michael Warren Mengis, Colleen M. Faddick, Vinson & Elkins, Houston, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Harold Edwin Brown, Jr., San Antonio, TX, Linda A. Banks (argued), U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC, for Defendant-Appellee.