Carondelet Health Services, Inc. v. Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System Administration

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• holding that a methodology for computing hospital charges was a rule under the APA
• holding applications of invalid rule promulgated by state health care system to establish methodology for calculating hospital reimbursement rates void
• finding that the Aizona Health Care Cost Containment System (“AHCCCS”) reimbursement methodology was intended to “implement” session law and amend a rule previously adopted by AHCCCS pursuant to its authority to do so
• rejecting argument that from legislative silence one can infer “the legislature never envisioned the need for an explanatory rule”
• rejecting argument that forcing agency to comply with APA would “tie [its] hands” and not allow it to fulfill its statutory mandate
• rejecting agency’s argument that complying with APA would “tie their hands” with “lengthy rulemaking and protracted public hearings” because thirty to 120-day delay in enacting rule is not “so alarming” to warrant agency being excused from compliance

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