Baystate Medical Center v. Leavitt

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that CMS failed to use the “best available data”
• explaining that “the Medicare fraction . . . is often referred to as the SSI fraction”
• explaining that the time is measured by “the number of hospital inpatient days”
• reaching “the inescapable conclusion that Congress did not intend that patients’ ineligible for SSI payments would be counted in the numerator” of the SSI fraction
• recounting counsel’s explanation that “[t]he ‘operative effect’ of applying the Administrator’s definition of Medicare days is not upon the SSI fraction, but instead upon the Medicaid fraction ...”
• “42 C.F.R. § 412.106(b)[] only sets forth the method for computing the disproportionate patient percentage[.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).