IRVINE MEDICAL CENTER v. THOMPSON

Nos. 99-56319, 00-15757.

275 F.3d 823 (2002)

IRVINE MEDICAL CENTER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Tommy G. THOMPSON, Secretary of the Department of Health & Human Services, Defendant-Appellee. Arizona Rehabilitation Hospital, Inc., (Medical Provider No. 3-3026), dba Novacare Valley of the Sun Rehabilitation Hospital; Arizona Rehabilitation Hospital, Inc. (Medical Provider No. 03-5212), dba Novacare Valley of the Sun Rehabilitation Hospital, Plaintiffs-Appellants, and Novacare Meridian Point Rehabilitation Hospital, Inc. (Medical Provider No. 03-3025); Tucson Regional Rehabilitation Hospital, Inc. (Medical Provider No. 03-3028); Novacare Rehab Agency of Georgia, Inc. (Medical Provider No. 11-6533); Novacare Rehab Agency of Illinois, Inc. (Medical Provider No. 14-6518); Novacare Tri-State Regional Rehabilitation Hospital, Inc. (Medical Provider No. 15-3025); Rehabilitation Corporation of Virginia (Medical Provider No. 49-3028) dba Novacare Rehabilitation Hospital of Virginia, Plaintiffs, v. Tommy G. Thompson, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed January 4, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jonathan P. Neustadter, Hooper, Lundy & Bookman, Inc., Los Angeles, California, Ronald N. Sutter, Powers, Pyles, Sutter & Verville, P.C., Washington, D.C., for the plaintiffs-appellants.

Richard K. Waterman, Department of Health & Human Services, San Francisco, California, for the defendant-appellee.

Before: PREGERSON, CANBY, and THOMPSON, Circuit Judges.


Opinion by Judge CANBY; Dissent by Judge PREGERSON.

CANBY, Circuit Judge:

This is a consolidated appeal brought by Medicare service providers against the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services ("Secretary"). The plaintiffs contend that the Secretary acted unlawfully in repealing a regulation that had allowed providers to carry forward reasonable costs disallowed in a particular fiscal period to succeeding fiscal periods. In both actions,...

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