2017D17

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