2019D36

Issue 1: Whether the Medicare Contractor's adjustments, decreasing the Provider's direct Graduate Medical Education ("GME") and Indirect Medical Education ("IME") Full Time Equivalent ("FTE") Caps to a level below the Provider's audited and adjusted fiscal year ending June 30, 1996 ("FY 1996") GME and IME Medicare resident counts should be reversed. Issue 2: Whether the Medicare Contractor's adjustments disallowing certain bad debt claims with respect to indigent patients whose indigency was determined through the Save Our Seniors ("SOS") Program should be reversed.