Anna Jacques Hospital v. Sylvia Mathews Burwell

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• noting that “‘hospital’ can encompass institutions with multiple campuses and facilities”
• observing the lack of anything in the Medicare statute beyond “general guidance” regarding how the Secretary should construct the wage index
• permitting HHS to change the geographic areas used to calculate the wage index and to treat multi-campus hospitals as if they only had one main campus
• permitting HHS to change the geographic areas used to calculate the wage index and to treat multi-campus hospitals as if they only had one main campus
• Secretary may “sensibly” conclude “that ‘the interests in finality and administrative efficiency outweighed the value of increased accuracy’” (quoting Methodist Hosp., 38 F.2d at 1235)
• “After years of study, the Secretary determined that, beginning in fiscal year 2005, she would use th[e OMB’s] Core-Based Statistical Areas to calculate the wage indices.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).