Medicare

  • Healey v. Thompson

    Medicare Recipients Sue Department of Health and Human Services for Failing to Give Home Health Service Beneficiaries Written Notice of Terminations

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    September 21, 2001

  • U.S. v. Horizon West, Inc.

    Ninth Circuit Upholds Qui Tam Action Because the Allegations Hitherto were not Publicly Disclosed

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    September 13, 2001

  • Monmouth Med. Cen. v. Thompson

    D.C. Circuit Finds that Disproportionate Share Hospital Reimbursement Adjustments could be Recalculated Despite Administrative Error in Lodging Appeal

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    July 27, 2001

  • Grijalva v. Shalala

    Medicare Beneficiaries Settle Challenge to Adequacy of HMOs’ Notice of Service Denials; Fast-Track Review Process Established

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    December 05, 2000

  • Vencor v. Physicians Mutual Insurance

    After Medicare Exhaustion Hospitals May Charge Reasonably More than Approved Rate for Medicare-Covered Days in Hospital

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    April 06, 2000

  • Morris v. Shalala

    Fifth Circuit Court Upholds Denial of Nursing Services Under Medicare As Being Supported by Substantial Evidence

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    March 22, 2000

  • Shalala v. Illinois Council on Long Term Care

    Supreme Court Holds That Medicare Act Bars Federal-Question Jurisdiction over Certain Challenges to Medicare Law

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    February 29, 2000

  • Richey v. Shalala; In re Richey

    Medicare to Cover Lung Volume Reduction Surgery Because It Was Safe, Effective, and "Reasonable and Necessary"

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    February 01, 2000

  • American Health Care Association v. Shalala

    Claims Procedure for Nursing Home Noncompliances is Found Inadequate and to Encourage Delays, Endangering Patients' Lives

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    July 19, 1999

  • Texas Gray Panthers v. Shalala

    Low-Income Elderly Plaintiffs Allege Inadequate Information, Counseling, and Assistance for Medicare Buy-In Program

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    June 16, 1999