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ACTIVE CASES
 

  • No. 06-1607 (D.D.C.), filed September 15, 2006, appeal filed September 29, 2006 (No. 06-5295, D.C.Cir.)
     

    At issue in this case is whether the Secretary's refusal to inform 230,000 Part D-enrolled beneficiaries, who mistakenly were sent money reflecting the amount of their monthly premiums, of their right to request waiver of recovery, while demanding repayment by September 30, 2006, violated the Medicare statute and the Due Process Clause.
    Updated: April 9, 2009
     

  • Anderson v. Leavitt

    No. 09-cv-16 (D.Vt.), filed January 22, 2009

     

    At issue in this case is whether the Secretary's policy of terminating Medicare coverage for a home health patient on the ground that her condition is stable or is not improving violates the Medicare statute and regulations.

    Updated: April 9, 2009
     

  • The Center for Medicare Advocacy v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
    No. 1:05CV2266 (D.D.C.), filed November 23, 2005

    At issue in this case is whether HHS violated the Freedom of Information Act when it failed to respond to a request for documents about the videoconferencing technology to be employed in the new system for handling Medicare appeals to ALJs.
    Updated: April 9, 2009
     

  • Fournier v. Leavitt

    No. CV 08-2309-PHX-ROS (D.Ariz.), filed December 18, 2009

     

    At issue in this case is whether the Medicare program's prohibition against coverage of dental services should apply to extraordinary dental care necessary to treat a medical condition.

    Updated: April 9, 2009
     

  • Haro v. Johnson

    No. 09-cv-134-TUC-DCB (D.Ariz.), filed March 10, 2009

     

    At issue in this case is whether the Secretary's aggressive methods for attempting to collect payments under his Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) program, directed at beneficiaries and their attorneys, violates the Medicare statute and the Due Process Clause.

    Updated: April 9, 2009
     

  • Hart v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

    No. 09-cv-76-CKJ (D. Ariz.), filed February 6, 2009

     

    At issue in this case is whether the defendant's failure to respond to a request for documents about the number of attorneys against whom CMS has taken action to recover conditional payments under its MSP program violates the Freedom of Information Act.

    Updated: April 9, 2009
     

  • Landers v. Leavitt
    No. 3:04CV1988JCH (D. Conn.), filed Nov. 23, 2004

    At issue in this case is whether the Secretary's policy of not counting time in an emergency room or in "observation status" toward the three-day qualifying hospital stay for purposes of establishing the right to subsequent skilled nursing facility coverage violates the Medicare statute and guarantees of equal protection.
    Updated: April 9, 2009
     

  • Machado v. Leavitt
    No. 07-30111-MAP (D. Mass.), filed June 19, 2007

    At issue in this case is w
    hether the failure of the Secretary of HHS and the Commissioner of Social Security to stop withholding premium payments for Part D when requested by beneficiaries, and to repay the amounts improperly withheld, violates the Medicare statute, the anti-assignment provision of the Social Security Act, and the Due Process Clause.
    Updated: April 9, 2009
     

  • Prendergast v. Leavitt
    No. 3:08-CV-1148 (AHN) (D. Conn.), filed July 31, 2008

    At issue in this case is whether the use of a "stability" test to terminate home health coverage on the ground that the patient no longer needs skilled nursing care violates the Medicare statute and regulations.
    Updated: April 9, 2009
     

  • Situ v. Leavitt
    No. C06-02841-TEH (N.D.Cal.), filed April 26, 2006

    At issue in this case is w
    hether CMS' failure to correctly implement the Part D prescription benefit for hundreds of thousands of dual eligibles violates the Medicare status and the Due Process Clause.
    Updated: April 9, 2009
     

 

 
 
 

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