[Updated for all three July, 2014 documents]
[Updated 8/27/2014: Judges schedule oral argument for December.]
[Updated 2/3/2015: Orals arguments were heard in DC on February 2.]
Last spring, the California Clinical Laboratory Association filed a court case against the federal Department of Health and Human Services asserting that Local Coverage Determinations were unconstitutional. This was announced with a public press release, covered in the trade press, and I provided a short blog and a link to the original CCLA filing here [April 18, 2014].
[Updated 8/27/2014: Judges schedule oral argument for December.]
[Updated 2/3/2015: Orals arguments were heard in DC on February 2.]
Last spring, the California Clinical Laboratory Association filed a court case against the federal Department of Health and Human Services asserting that Local Coverage Determinations were unconstitutional. This was announced with a public press release, covered in the trade press, and I provided a short blog and a link to the original CCLA filing here [April 18, 2014].
In early July, the government responded with a 32-page
motion to dismiss on several grounds.
This is typically the first move when you sue the government – I worked
as a Medicare medical director in the previous decade (the 00’s) and lawsuits
against us were quickly transformed into motion-to-dismiss cases. In mid July, the CCLA, through its attorneys, responded to the motion to dismiss and finally, at the end of July, the government responded to that CCLA filing as well. Finally, in late August, judges scheduled oral arguments in the case for December, 2014.
