United States Ninth Circuit

In order to qualifying for an additional adjustment from Medicare for serving low-income patients, the extent to which a hospital cares for low-income patients must be measured against net inpatient care revenues as a whole.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/12/2004
• Decided 08/20/2004
• Published 08/20/2004

Judges

• LEIGHTON, District Judge:, Before:  TASHIMA and CLIFTON, Circuit Judges, and LEIGHTON, District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Edith S. Marshall, Powers, Pyles, Sutter & Verville, P.C., Washington, DC, Stewart L. Bell, Janet F. Stewart, Mark E. Wood, Office of the District Attorney, Las Vegas, NV, for the appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert D. McCallum, Jr., Daniel G. Bogden, Anthony J. Steinmeyer, Anne Murphy, Department of Justice, Civil Division, Washington, DC, for the appellee.