The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued an opinion in Marietta Memorial Hospital Employee Health Benefit Plan v. DaVita Inc., which reversed the Sixth Circuit’s October 2020 decision finding that DaVita Inc. plausibly asserted a claim against an Ohio hospital’s health plan for unlawfully discriminating against patients with end-stage renal disease by offering low reimbursement rates … Continue Reading
If this blog is beginning to sound a bit like a broken record regarding the recurrence of important health care decisions, that may not be a surprise. On Friday, the Sixth Circuit handed down a significant decision regarding the Medicare Secondary Payer Act, Bio-Medical Applications of Tennessee, Inc. v. Central State’s Southeast and Southwest Areas … Continue Reading
Today, the Court heard oral argument in one of a recent spate of Medicare cases that have been shaping Medicare’s right to reimbursement for its expenses from tort settlements. On appeal this time is the decision out of the Western District of Kentucky, Hadden v. United States (Case No. 1:08-CV-10, August 6, 2009) (pdf), in which the court … Continue Reading
