EVANSTON HOSP. v. HAUCK

No. 92-3551.

1 F.3d 540 (1993)

EVANSTON HOSPITAL, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Robert V. HAUCK, Louis W. Sullivan, Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Phillip Bradley, Director of Illinois Department of Public Aid, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 30, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald J. Hennings, Raymond E. Clutts, Paul A. Grabowski (argued) and Leonard D. Saphire-Bernstein, Grabowski & Clutts, Evanston, IL, for plaintiff-appellant.

Thomas A. Demetrio, Michael G. Mahoney (argued), Corboy & Demetrio; Shirley M. Michaelson (argued), Dept. of Health and Human Services, Region V, Office of the Gen. Counsel; Michele M. Fox, Asst. U.S. Atty., Office of the U.S. Atty., Civ. Div., Appellate Section; and James C. O'Connell, Asst. Atty. Gen., David Adler (argued) and William O. Arnold, III, Office of the Atty. Gen., Chicago, IL, for defendants-appellees.

Before BAUER, Chief Judge, and CUMMINGS and EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judges.


CUMMINGS, Circuit Judge.

After coming in contact with a live electrical wire, Robert V. Hauck landed in Evanston Hospital and stayed there for more than a year, running up a bill of $270,760.24. He could not pay it and apparently did not have private health insurance to pay it for him. The hospital decided to accept partial reimbursement of $113,424 from Medicaid, the government-run health care insurance program for indigents, which in Illinois is administered by...

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