Community Health Care Association of New York v. Shah

CourtCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit
DecidedOctober 7, 2014
Docket13-771-cv 13-991-cv 13-3332-cv 13-3454-cv
StatusPublished

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Community Health Care Association of New York v. Shah, (2d Cir. 2014).

Opinion

13‐771‐cv; 13‐991‐cv; 13‐3332‐cv; 13‐3454‐cv Community Health Care Association of New York v. Shah

1 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS 2 FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT 3 ____________________ 4 5 August Term, 2013 6 7 (Argued: June 3, 2014 Decided: October 7, 2014) 8 9 Docket Nos. 13‐771‐cv; 13‐991‐cv; 13‐3332‐cv; 13‐3454‐cv 10 11 ____________________ 12

13 COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK, ANTHONY L. 14 JORDAN HEALTH CENTER, BEDFORD STUYVESANT FAMILY HEALTH 15 CENTER, INC., BROOKLYN PLAZA MEDICAL CENTER, INC., 16 BROWNSVILLE MULTI‐SERVICE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER, CHARLES B. 17 WANG COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER, INC., COMMUNITY HEALTH 18 CENTER OF BUFFALO, INC., COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF 19 RICHMOND, INC., COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE NETWORK, DAMIAN 20 FAMILY CARE CENTERS, INC., EAST HARLEM COUNCIL FOR HUMAN 21 SERVICES, INC., EAST HILL FAMILY MEDICAL, INC., EZRA MEDICAL 22 CENTER, FAMILY HEALTH NETWORK OF CENTRAL NEW YORK, INC., 23 FINGER LAKES MIGRANT HEALTH CARE PROJECT, INC., HERITAGE 24 HEALTH AND HOUSING, INC., HUDSON HEADWATERS HEALTH 25 NETWORK, HUDSON RIVER HEALTHCARE, INC., JOSEPH P. ADDABBO 26 FAMILY HEALTH CENTER, INC., MIDDLETON COMMUNITY HEALTH 27 CENTER, INC., MORRIS HEIGHTS HEALTH CENTER, MOUNT VERNON 28 NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CENTER, INC., NORTHERN OSWEGO COUNTY 29 HEALTH SERVICES, INC., NORTHWEST BUFFALO COMMUNITY HEALTH 30 CARE CENTER, OAK ORCHARD COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER, INC., 31 ODA PRIMARY HEALTH CARE CENTER, INC., OPEN DOOR FAMILY 32 MEDICAL CENTER, INC., ROCHESTER PRIMARY CARE NETWORK, 33 RYAN/CHELSEA‐CLINTON COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER, 1 SCHENECTADY FAMILY HEALTH SERVICES, INC., DBA HOMETOWN 2 HEALTH CENTER, SUNSET PARK HEALTH COUNCIL, INC., SYRACUSE 3 COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER, INC., GREATER HUDSON VALLEY 4 FAMILY HEALTH CENTER, INC., URBAN HEALTH PLAN, INCORPORATED, 5 WHITNEY M. YOUNG, JR. HEALTH CENTER, WILLIAM F. RYAN 6 COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER, 7 8 Plaintiffs‐‐Appellants‐‐Cross‐Appellees, 9 10 v. 11 12 M.D. NIRAV SHAH, in his Official Capacity as Commissioner, New York State 13 Department of Health, State of New York, 14 15 Defendant‐‐Appellee‐‐Cross‐Appellant. 16 17 ____________________ 18 19 Before: POOLER, HALL, and CARNEY, Circuit Judges. 20 21 Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of

22 New York (Andrew L. Carter, Jr., J.). Plaintiffs, certain health‐service providers

23 designated under federal law as Federally Qualified Health Centers (“FQHCs”,

24 or “Health Centers”) and a trade association representing a number of FQHCs

25 assert various challenges under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to New York’s methods of

26 reimbursing them for services they provide under Medicaid. They seek injunctive

27 relief to remedy these supposed shortcomings in New York’s method for

28 providing Medicaid reimbursement for their provision of services under 42

2 1 U.S.C. § 1396a(bb). The Health Centers’ suit, at present, names M.D. Nirav Shah,

2 Commissioner of the New York State Department of Health (“Commissioner”),

3 as defendant. On cross‐motions for summary judgment, the district court for the

4 most part upheld the Commissioner’s methods for reimbursing FQHCs for

5 services they provide pursuant to Medicaid, and granted prospective relief to the

6 Health Centers for reimbursement for certain services they provide to patients

7 enrolled with Medicaid Managed Care Organizations (“MCOs”). Cmty. Healthcare

8 Ass’n of N.Y. v. N.Y. State Dep’t of Health, 921 F. Supp. 2d 130 (S.D.N.Y. 2013).

9 We agree with the district court that, by and large, there are no disputed

10 issues of material fact, and that summary judgment is therefore appropriate. See

11 Fed. R. Civ. P. 56(a). We further agree with the district court’s approach to, and

12 analysis of, the majority of the issues before us. We thus affirm the grant of

13 summary judgment to the Commissioner on most issues involving his

14 methodologies for reimbursing FQHCs, and affirm the grant of summary

15 judgment to the FQHCs on issues involving their reimbursement for services

16 provided to MCO enrollees. However, we find that the district court erred in

17 concluding that there were no disputed issues of material fact with respect to the

18 Commissioner’s methodology for calculating its prospective obligation to make a

3 1 wraparound payment to FQHCs that provide services pursuant to a contract

2 with an MCO, see 42 U.S.C. § 1396a(bb)(5). We therefore vacate in limited part the

3 district court’s grant of summary judgment to the Commissioner and remand for

4 the district court to assess, after resolution of these factual disputes, the

5 compatibility of this methodology with 42 U.S.C. § 1396a(bb)(5).

6 Affirmed in part, vacated and remanded in part.

7 ____________________

8 MATTHEW S. FREEDUS, Feldesman Tucker Leifer 9 Fidell LLP, Washington D.C. (James L. Feldesman, 10 Feldesman, Tucker Leifer Fidell LLP, Washington D.C.; 11 David A. Koenigsberg, Mens Bonner Komar & 12 Koenigsberg LLP, New York, NY, on the brief), for 13 Plaintiffs‐‐Appellants‐‐Cross‐‐Appellees. 14 15 ANDREW W. AMEND, Assistant Solicitor General of 16 Counsel (Eric T. Schneiderman, Attorney General of the 17 State of New York; Barbara D. Underwood, Solicitor 18 General; Richard P. Dearing, Deputy Solicitor General, 19 on the brief), New York State Office of the Attorney 20 General, New York, NY, for Defendant‐‐Appellee‐‐Cross‐ 21 Appellant. 22 23 POOLER, Circuit Judge:

24 This case requires us to consider challenges to certain aspects of New

25 York’s administration of its responsibilities under the federal Medicaid Act, 42

4 1 U.S.C. § 1396a et seq. (“Medicaid Act” or “Medicaid Statute”). Plaintiffs, certain

2 health‐service providers designated under federal law as Federally Qualified

3 Health Centers and a trade association representing a number of FQHCs

4 (together, “FQHCs” or “Health Centers”) assert various challenges to New

5 York’s methods of reimbursing them for services they provide under Medicaid.

6 They seek injunctive relief under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to remedy these alleged

7 shortcomings in New York’s method for providing Medicaid payments for the

8 services the Health Centers provide. The Health Centers’ suit, at present, names

9 M.D. Nirav Shah, Commissioner of the New York State Department of Health,

10 (“Commissioner”) as defendant.1 On cross‐motions for summary judgment, the

11 United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Andrew L.

12 Carter, Jr., J.), for the most part upheld the Commissioner’s methods for

13 reimbursing FQHCs for services they provide pursuant to Medicaid, but granted

14 prospective relief to the Health Centers for reimbursement for certain services

15 they provide to patients enrolled with Medicaid Managed Care Organizations

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