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ATHENS COMMUNITY HOSP. v. HECKLER

Civ. No. 3-82-708.

565 F.Supp. 695 (1983)

ATHENS COMMUNITY HOSPITAL, Bedford County General Hospital, Bristol Memorial Hospital, Chamberlain Memorial Hospital, Johnson County Memorial Hospital, Kingsport Hospital, U.T. Memorial Hospital, and Woods Memorial Hospital v. Margaret M. HECKLER, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services and Carolyne K. Davis, Administrator, Health Care Financing Administration.

United States District Court, E.D. Tennessee, N.D.

May 31, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dale C. Allen, Knoxville, Tenn., Robert A. Klein, Richard A. Jones, Los Angeles, Cal., for plaintiffs.

John H. Gill, Jr., U.S. Atty., and J. Michael Haynes, Asst. U.S. Atty., Knoxville, Tenn., Juan A. Del Real, Gen. Counsel, Ann T. Hunsaker, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Jeanne Schulte Scott, Dennis S. Diaz, Attys., Dept. of H & HS, Washington, D.C., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM

ROBERT L. TAYLOR, Chief Judge.

In this action plaintiff hospitals challenge the validity of a Medicare regulation apportioning the costs of hospital medical malpractice insurance for Medicare reimbursement purposes. The regulation, 42 C.F.R. § 405.452(b)(1)(ii), was promulgated by the Secretary1 of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in 1979. After the rule was adopted, defendant Secretary

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