FORREST GENERAL HOSP. v. AZAR

No. 18-60227.

926 F.3d 221 (2019)

FORREST GENERAL HOSPITAL; Southwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center, Plaintiffs-Appellants v. Alex M. AZAR, II, Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Defendant-Appellee

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

FILED June 10, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas L. Kirkland, Jr., Esq. , Andy Lowry , Allison Carter Simpson , Attorney, Balch & Bingham, L.L.P., Jackson, MS, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Samuel Lynn Murray , Assistant U.S. Attorney, Jennifer L. Case , U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Mississippi, Jackson, MS, Jennifer Utrecht , Alisa Beth Klein, Esq. , U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Appellate Section, Washington, DC, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before REAVLEY, ELROD, and WILLETT, Circuit Judges.


One tricky area of America's uniquely complex healthcare "system" is the labyrinth of acronyms and formulae that govern Medicare funding. In this appeal, two Mississippi hospitals insist that the federal government skimped on their Disproportionate Share Hospital (or DSH—pronounced "dish") payments—special...

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