Please find below all of the Center for Medicare Advocacy's active cases.
- Bagnall v. Sebelius No. 11-1703 (D.Conn.), filed November 3, 2011 Issue: Whether the Secretary's policy of allowing hospitalized Medicare beneficiaries to be placed in "observation status," rather than formally admitting them, deprives them of their Part A coverage in violation of the Medicare statute, the Administrative Procedure Act, the Freedom of Information Act, and the Due Process Clause. Relief sought: ...
- Bremby v. Burwell No. 3:15-cv-01397 (DJS), filed September 22, 2015 Issue: Whether the Secretary violated the Medicare statute and the Due Process Clause by not recognizing that Vitamin B-12 injections represent a per se skilled nursing service and therefore the service should have been covered, and, in general, by failing to recognize the right to coverage for per se skilled ...
- Haro v. Johnson 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) program, directed at beneficiaries and their attorneys, violates the Medicare statute and the Due Process Clause. Relief sought: Declaratory and injunctive relief prohibiting defendant's ...
- Hull v. Sebelius No. 14-801 (D.Conn.), filed June 4, 2014 Issue: Whether the Secretary of Health & Human Services’ denial rate of about 98% at the lowest two levels of appeal in Medicare’s system of administrative review (redetermination and reconsideration) violates the Medicare statute and the Due Process Clause. Relief sought: Declaratory and injunctive relief for a Connecticut class of ...
- Jimmo v. Sebelius 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 procedural requirements of the Medicare statute, the Administrative Procedure Act, and the Freedom of Information Act, and the Due Process Clause of the ...
- Lessler v. Burwell No. 3:14-cv-01230 (D.Conn.), filed August 26, 2014 Issue: Whether the consistent failure of administrative law judges (ALJs) to issue decisions within 90 days of the request for ALJ review (with an average delay now approaching 500 days) violates the Medicare statute and the Due Process Clause. Relief sought: Declaratory and injunctive relief prohibiting the Secretary from not ensuring ...
- Lodge v. Burwell No. 3:15-cv-00390-JBA (D.Conn.), filed March 17, 2015 Issue: Whether extraordinary dental care should be covered because the exclusion for coverage of dental care should be limited to routine dental care. Relief Sought: Reversal of the Secretary’s decision denying coverage to the plaintiff and enjoining the Secretary from relying on a regulation that does not define the coverage ...
- Olsen-Ecker v. Burwell No. 3:15-cv-1468-JAM, filed October 9, 2015 Issue: Whether the extremely high denial rates (98% and higher) at the redetermination and reconsideration stages of administrative review for home health care claims violate the Medicare statute and the Due Process Clause. Relief sought: Declaratory and injunctive relief requiring the Secretary to correct the existing system of lower level review ...
- Ryan v. Burwell No. 5:14-cv-269 (D.Vt.), filed Dec. 19, 2014 Issue: Whether the failure of the Secretary to apply the “prior favorable homebound decision” rule, which accords “great weight” to previous administrative decisions establishing homebound status, violates the Medicare regulations, as implemented by the Medicare Program Integrity Manual, and the Due Process Clause. Relief Sought: Declaratory and injunctive relief on ...