United States Eleventh Circuit
LIFESTAR AMBULANCE SERV., INC. v. US, 03-11392
Dispute concerning the Medicare reimbursement rates for ambulance service suppliers is dismissed for lack of mandamus jurisdiction. The fact that resort to administrative remedies is "futile" does not justify the effective nullification of Medicare's exhaustion requirement.
Appellate Information
- Decided 04/16/2004
- Published 04/16/2004
Judges
- HILL, Circuit Judge:, Before ANDERSON, BLACK and HILL, Circuit Judges.
Court
- United States Eleventh Circuit
Counsel
- For Appellees:
- Jeffrey A. Clair, Washington, DC, for Defendants-Appellants., James E. Butler, Jr., Dustin Thomas Brown, Jason L. Crawford, James Clay Fuller, Butler, Wooten, Overby & Cheeley, Columbus, GA, G. Christopher Kelly, Atlanta, GA, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.