United States DC Circuit

The Secretary of Health and Human Services correctly denied a hospital an exemption from the Medicare payment limitations imposed under the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act (TEFRA) of 1982, and the hospital was not entitled to a change of its base cost reporting period under the TEFRA.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/05/2001
• Decided 06/14/2002
• Published 06/14/2002

Judges

• Before:  GINSBURG, Chief Judge;  SENTELLE and GARLAND, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States DC Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jonathan P. Neustadter argued the cause for appellant.   With him on the briefs was Patric Hooper.


• For Appellees:
  
• Marcus H. Christ, Jr., Attorney, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, argued the cause for appellee.   With him on the brief were David S. Cade, Acting General Counsel, Henry R. Goldberg, Deputy Associate General Counsel, David W. Ogden, Assistant Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice, Wilma A. Lewis, U.S. Attorney at the time the brief was filed, and Anthony J. Steinmeyer, Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice.