Supreme Court of California

Federal Medicaid law preempts California's provider lien statutes, Welf. & Inst. Code section 14124.791, but the trial court properly dismissed on other grounds an action filed by a Medi-Cal beneficiary against her medical provider.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/02/2003
• Published 06/02/2003

Judges

• BROWN, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
•  Chavez & Gertler, Mark A. Chavez, Mill Valley, Kim E. Card, San Francisco;  Blumenthal Ostroff & Markham, Law Offices of Sheldon A. Ostroff, Sheldon A. Ostroff, David R. Markham, San Diego;  Law Offices of Thomas J. Brandi, and Thomas J. Brandi, San Francisco, for Plaintiff and Appellant.,  Manjusha P. Kulkarni;  Kimberly Lewis;  Rebecca S. Gudeman;  and Marilyn Holle, Los Angeles, for National Health Law Program, Western Center on Law & Poverty, National Center for Youth Law and Protection & Advocacy, Inc., as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant., The Sturdevant Law Firm, James C. Sturdevant, San Francisco, Mark T. Johnson;  Hinton & Alfert and Scott H.Z. Sumner, Walnut Creek, for Consumer Attorneys of California as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Friestad & Giles, Deborah Giles, San Diego, and Leticia O. Trujillo, Escondido, for Defendant and Respondent., Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, Barry S. Landsberg, Harvey L. Rochman, Los Angeles, and Wendy M. Conole for Catholic Healthcare West and The Regents of the University of California as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Respondent., Catherine I. Hanson and Astrid G. Meghrigian, San Francisco, for the California Medical Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Respondent., Lois Richardson, Los Angeles, for California Healthcare Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Respondent., Stream & Stream, Theodore K. Stream, Riverside, Jamie E. Wrage, Los Angeles, and Tera Harden for Loma Linda University Medical Center, Inc., as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents.