Case Name: Buffalo Columbus Hospital, Respondent, v. David Axelrod, as Commissioner of State of New York Department of Health, et al., Appellants
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1987-02-27
Citations: 127 A.D.2d 987
Docket Number: 
Parties: Buffalo Columbus Hospital, Respondent, v David Axelrod, as Commissioner of State of New York Department of Health, et al., Appellants.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 127
Pages: 987–987

Head Matter:
Buffalo Columbus Hospital, Respondent, v David Axelrod, as Commissioner of State of New York Department of Health, et al., Appellants.

Opinion:
Judgment unanimously modified on the law and as modified affirmed with costs to petitioner, in accordance with the following memorandum: The judgment, except the paragraph adjudging that respondents must pay interest from July 1, 1981, is affirmed for reasons stated in the memorandum decision at Special Term (Rath, J.). Since there is no statutory authority for an award of interest on wrongly withheld Medicaid funds, it was improper to direct respondents to pay interest on the volume adjustment reimbursement amount owed to petitioner (see, Demisay v Whalen, 84 AD2d 902). (Appeal from judgment of Supreme Court, Erie County, Rath, J. — art 78.) Present — Dillon, P. J., Callahan, Green, Balio and Davis, JJ.