SOUTH SHORE HOSP., INC. v. THOMPSON

No. 02-1284.

308 F.3d 91 (2002)

SOUTH SHORE HOSPITAL, INC., d/b/a South Shore Hospital Transitional Care Center, Petitioner, Appellee, v. Tommy G. THOMPSON, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Respondent, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided October 16, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anthony A. Yang, Attorney, Appellate Staff, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, with whom Michael J. Sullivan, United States Attorney, Robert D. McCallum, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, and Barbara C. Biddle, Attorney, Appellate Staff, were on brief, for appellant.

Donald R. Frederico, with whom Peter R. Leone and McDermott, Will & Emery were on brief, for appellee.

Before SELYA, LYNCH and LIPEZ, Circuit Judges.


SELYA, Circuit Judge.

This appeal leads us into the often surreal world of Medicare administration. It arises out of efforts by South Shore Hospital (the Hospital), an acute care hospital located in South Weymouth, Massachusetts, to obtain relief for its transitional care center (the TCC) from Medicare's cost limits on reimbursement of routine patient care expenses. The Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) denied the...

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