University Health Services, Inc. v. Health & Human Services’s Empirical Analysis
120 F.3d 1145 · 1997
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently October 2017
7 federal appellate · 3 district ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Consolidated Edison Co of New York v. National Labor Relations Board · Auer v. Robbins · Thomas Jefferson University v. Shalala · Shalala v. St. Paul-Ramsey Medical Center · Lloyd Noland Hospital & Clinic v. Heckler
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Moratorium clearly contains two prohibitions; read in the light of logic, the ordinary rules of English grammar and usage, and the Moratorium’s legislative history, we conclude that the prohibitions are these: First, the Secretary is prohibited from making any change in “the policy in effect on August 1, 1987,” which governed payment to providers for their reasonable costs relating to their unrecovered costs; that “policy,” which the Secretary is prohibited from changing, includes the criteria governing what constitutes a “reasonable collection effort,” which in turn includes the criteria for determining whether to refer a claim to an external collection agency. Second, the Secretary is prohibited from requiring a hospital to make changes in the hospital’s bad debt collection policy”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where a collection agency is used, Medicare expects the provider to refer all uncollected patient charges of like amount to the agency without regard to class of patient. The ’like amount’ requirement may include uncollected charges above a specified minimum amount. Therefore, if a provider refers to a collection agency its uncollected non-Medicare patient charges which in amount are comparable to the individual Medicare deductible and coinsurance amounts due the provider from its Medicare patient, Medicare requires the provider to also refer its uncollected Medicare deductible and coinsurance amounts to the collection agency.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The OBRA of 1987, as amended, preserves Medicare bad debt policy that was in effect on August 1, 1987. The Act and its legislative history reflect a congressional intent to preclude the Secretary from increasing provider requirements applicable to claims for reimbursement of Medicare bad debt claims after that date. Additionally, the moratorium broadens the definition of Medicare policy to include intermediary interpretations of Medicare bad debt policy, rendered prior to August 1, 1987, but only if such interpretations were “express” and “consistent with Medicare policy.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.