Please find below all of the Center for Medicare Advocacy's active cases.
- Anderson v. Leavitt January 6, 2012
No. 09-cv-16 (D.Vt.), filed January 22, 2009 Issue: 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 Medica...
- Back v. Sebelius January 6, 2012
No. 09-1706 (C.D.Cal.), filed September 8, 2009. Appeal filed January 28, 2011 (No. 11-55175, 9th Cir.) Issue: Whether the absence of an administrative appeals process for the denial of services by a hospice violates the Medicare statute and the...
- Bagnall v. Sebelius February 2, 2012
No. 11-1703 (D.Conn.), filed November 3, 2011 Issue: Whether the Secretary's policy of allowed hospitalized Medicare beneficiaries to be placed in "observation status," rather than formally admitting them, deprives them of their Par...
- Center for Medicare Advocacy, Inc. v. Department of Health & Human Services (No. 10-cv-645) January 6, 2012
No. 10-cv-645 (D.Conn.), filed April 27, 2010 Issue: Whether a request under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. § 552, about how Medicare's Improvement Standard is explained to employees of CMS and its contractors, had to be answ...
- Fournier v. Leavitt January 6, 2012
No. CV 08-2309-PHX-ROS(D.Ariz.), filed December 18, 2008 Issue: Whether the Secretary's exclusion of coverage for dental care in extraordinary circumstances where the care is necessary to treat a medical condition violates the Medicare statute and...
- Haro v. Johnson January 6, 2012
No. 09-cv-134-TUC-DCB (D.Ariz.), filed March 10, 2009. Appeal filed June 30, 2011 (No. 11-16606, 9th Cir.). Issue: Whether the Secretary's aggressive methods for attempting to collect payments under his Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) pr...
- Jimmo v. Sebelius January 6, 2012
No. 11-cv-17 (D.Vt.), filed January 18, 2011 Issue: Whether the "Improvement Standard", which operates as a rule of thumb to terminate or deny Medicare coverage to beneficiaries who are not improving, violates substantive and pr...
- Prendergast v. Leavitt January 6, 2012
No. 3:08-CV-1148 (AHN) (D. Conn.), filed July 31, 2008 Issue: 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 regu...
- Situ v. Leavitt January 6, 2012
No. C06-02841-TEH (N.D.Cal.), filed April 26, 2006 Issue: Whether CMS' failure to correctly implement the Part D prescription benefit for hundreds of thousands of dual eligibles violates the Medicare statute and the Due Process Clause. Relief sou...
