Decided January 21, 2014

Matter of New Surfside Nursing Home, LLC v Daines, 103 AD3d 637, affirmed.

APPEARANCES OF COUNSEL

Hamburger, Maxon, Yaffe, Knauer & McNally, LLP, Melville (David N. Yaffe of counsel), for appellants.

Eric T. Schneiderman, Attorney General, New York City (Mark H. Shawhan of counsel), for respondents.

Memorandum.

The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed, with costs, and the certified question not answered as unnecessary. Petitioners' challenges to the audit results are [*2]untimely, as this hybrid CPLR article 78 proceeding/declaratory judgment action was not commenced within four months after petitioners' receipt of the audit results (see CPLR 217 [1]; Matter of Terrace HealthCare Ctr., Inc. v Novello, 54 AD3d 643, 643 [1st Dept 2008], lv denied 12 NY3d 712 [2009]; Concourse Rehabilitation & Nursing Ctr., Inc. v Novello, 45 AD3d 366, 367 [1st Dept 2007]). The authority cited by petitioners and relied upon by the dissent, including New York State Assn. of Counties v Axelrod (78 NY2d 158, 165 [1991]), did not involve the circumstances presented here, where audit results were issued to particular nursing facilities, which they knew would reduce their reimbursement rates, and where an article 78 proceeding could have been commenced to challenge those audit results.

Chief Judge Lippman and Judges Graffeo, Read, Smith, Pigott, Rivera and Abdus-Salaam concur.

On review of submissions pursuant to section 500.11 of the Rules of the Court of Appeals (22 NYCRR 500.11), order affirmed, with costs, and certified question not answered upon the ground that it is unnecessary, in a memorandum.