United States Ninth Circuit

Under 42 CFR 412.106(a)(1)(ii), a hospital may count subacute patient days when calculating a hospital's payment for disproportionate share hospital payments for treating low income patients under Medicare.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/09/2001
• Decided 08/07/2001
• Published 08/07/2001

Judges

• MICHAEL DALY HAWKINS, Circuit Judge:, Before:  RYMER, HAWKINS, and GOULD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jonathan P. Neustadter and Laurence D. Getzoff, Hooper, Lundy & Bookman, Inc., Los Angeles, California, for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Mark S. Davies, Department of Justice, Civil Division, Washington, D.C., for the defendant-appellee.