United States Ninth Circuit

In an action against the Secretary of Health and Human Services arguing that the adjustment plaintiff-hospitals received for serving disproportionately high numbers of low-income patients should be increased because the reimbursement did not account for all low-income patients included under the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, summary judgment for defendant is affirmed where the Secretary's decision that Medically Needy/Medically Indigent patient days were properly excluded from the Medicaid Low Income Proxy was not contrary to law, arbitrary or capricious, or unsupported by substantial evidence.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/21/2010
• Published 09/21/2010

Judges

• Betty B. Fletcher

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Roger N. Morris, Tony West