PRRB Dec. No. 2017-D17

Whether the use of Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ sequential geography methodology for setting the Providers’ base year per resident amounts for Medicare reimbursement of certain graduate medical education costs, which flow through and affect subsequent year cost determinations, was valid and consistent with 42 U.S.C.§ 1395ww(h)(2)(F) and 42 C.F.R. § 413.86(e)(4)(i)(1989).