LAWRENCE + MEMORIAL HOSP. v. BURWELL

Docket No. 15-164-cv.

812 F.3d 257 (2016)

LAWRENCE + MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Sylvia Mathews BURWELL, Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services, Marilyn Tavenner, Administrator, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Robert G. Eaton, Chairman, Medicare Geographic Classification Review Board, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: February 4, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph D. Glazer , Law Office of Joseph D. Glazer, P.C., Princeton, NJ (Steven M. Basche, Law Offices of Steven M. Basche, LLC, on the brief), for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Carolyn Ikari , Assistant United States Attorney, Hartford, CT ( Marc H. Silverman , of counsel, on the brief), Assistant United States Attorney, for Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before HALL and LYNCH, Circuit Judges, and RAKOFF, District Judge.


Under the Medicare Act, a hospital's classification as "rural" or "urban" may affect the amount of reimbursement that the hospital receives for providing medical services, as well as the hospital's access to certain medical programs. But a hospital can reasonably be viewed as "rural" in some respects (e.g., it is situated...

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