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- Title: Baptist Hospital East v. Secretary of Health and Human Services
- Author : United States Court Of Appeals For The Sixth Circuit
- Release Date : January 06, 1986
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 80 KB
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Appellants, five non-profit hospitals, are all providers of health care services under the Medicare program who, during the relevant period, provided some free health care to non-Medicare patients. These services were accounted for by the hospitals as either bad debts, charity or courtesy allowances. The hospitals now seek reimbursement from the Medicare program for a portion of these services. They appeal a decision of the United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky upholding 42 C.F.R. ร§ 405.420 under which the Secretary of Health and Human Services denied their claims for reimbursement. We agree with Chief Judge Charles M. Allen that a providers self-disallowance is not a matter covered by its cost report and does not preserve the jurisdiction of the Provider Reimbursement Review Board with respect to the self-disallowance, that section 405.420 does not conflict with the reasonable cost provisions of the Medicare Act, 42 U.S.C. ร§ 1395x(v)(1)(A), and that section 405.420 does not violate the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment.