MASSACHUSETTS HOSPITAL ASS'N, INC. v. HARRIS

Civ. A. No. 78-583-K.

500 F.Supp. 1270 (1980)

MASSACHUSETTS HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION, INC., on its own behalf and on behalf of its Member Hospitals participating in the Medicaid Program, Plaintiff, v. Patricia R. HARRIS, as she is Secretary of Health and Human Services, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Department of Public Welfare, Alexander E. Sharp, II, Individually and as he is Commissioner of Public Welfare, David Pratt, as he is successor in office to Alexander E. Sharp, Rate Setting Commission, Stephen M. Weiner, Individually and as he is Chairman of the Rate Setting Commission, and Shelby P. Mudarri, Individually and as he is Commissioner of the Rate Setting Commission, Charles Stover, Individually and as he is Commissioner of the Rate Setting Commission, Peter Hiam, successor in office to Stephen M. Weiner, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Massachusetts.

October 29, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward D. Kalman, Kenneth A. Behar, O'Leary, Behar & Kalman, Boston, Mass., for plaintiff.

S. Stephen Rosenfeld, Carl Valvo, Asst. Attys. Gen., Boston, Mass., Donald Anderson, Asst. U.S. Atty., Nancy S. Nemon, Deputy Regional Atty., Dept. of Health & Human Services, Boston, Mass., for defendants.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

KEETON, District Judge.

I.

Introduction

The Massachusetts Hospital Association, Inc. (MHA), a nonprofit corporation of 151 member hospitals, has brought this action challenging Massachusetts' system for reimbursing hospitals for the costs of inpatient services provided to Medicaid patients. The Commonwealth's Medicaid cost reimbursement program is administered by the Department of Public Welfare (DPW) pursuant to...

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