DUMBAULD, Senior District Judge.
This case presents an interesting question of accommodating two statutory provisions which point in opposite directions. The issue involved is whether Medicare is obliged to pay for telephones in patients' rooms in hospitals. Appellants (six hospitals) point to 42 U.S.C. § 1395x(b)(2), which authorizes payment for "such use of hospital facilities, and such medical social services as are ordinarily furnished by the hospital for...
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