Judgment of the district court affirming Provider Reimbursement Board’s (Board) dismissal of plaintiff’s request that their assigned Medicare financial intermediary reopen and reconsider several issues in the hospital’s cost report from 1998 is affirmed where: 1) the evidence in the record supports the Board’s dismissal of plaintiff’s challenge to the Supplemental Security Income Fraction; and 2) district court did not abuse its discretion in denying plaintiff’s two discovery motions.   

Read Little Co. of Mary Hosp. v. Sebelius, No. 09-1665

Appellate Information

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division

Decided November 24, 2009

Judges

Before:  Posner, Flaum, and Rovner, Circuit Judges

Opinion by Flaum,  Circuit Judge

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