Community Hospital Of The Monterey Peninsula v. Tommy G. Thompson

How courts have described this case

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• noting that the Medicare Act’s implementing regulations have “the force of law”
• finding the “must-bill policy to be a reasonable interpretation of the reimbursement system and not inconsistent with the status and regulations”
• reviewing a district court’s order finding that the agency exceeded its authority under the Medicare statute and remanding for further proceedings
• reviewing a district court’s order finding that the agency exceeded its authority under the Medicare statute and remanding for further proceedings
• upholding the Secretary’s conclusion “that the must-bill policy was necessary in order to generate contemporaneous documentation that could be ‘maintained’ in the usual course of the 21 provider’s business as required by § 413.20(a
• “Given that billing the state is the most straightforward and reliable way of determining whether, and, if so, how much the state will pay, we are unable to say that the must-bill policy is inconsistent with the statute or regulations or is an unreasonable interpretation of them”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).