United States Second Circuit

The Medicare statute requires Home Health Agencies to give written notice before they reduce or terminate home health services for any reason. The Due Process Clause does not require the Department of Health and Human Services to conduct a pre-deprivation review of a Home Health Agency's adverse coverage determination.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/26/2004
• Published 02/26/2004

Judges

• Before:  WINTER and CABRANES, Circuit Judges, and JONES, District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Gill Deford, Center for Medicare Advocacy, Inc., Willimantic, CT (Judith Stein, Brad Plebani, and Pamela A. Meliso, Center for Medicare Advocacy, Inc., Willimantic, CT;  Alfred J. Chiplin, Jr. and Vicki Gottlich, Center for Medicare Advocacy, Inc., Washington, DC;  Sally Hart, Center for Medicare Advocacy, Inc., Tucson, AZ;  Diane Paulson, Greater Boston Legal Services, Boston, MA;  Edward C. King, National Senior Citizens Law Center, Washington, DC;  Sarah Lock, AARP Foundation Litigation, Washington, DC;  Lenore Gerard, San Francisco, CA, of counsel), for Plaintiffs-Appellants., Craig A. Landy, Landy & Seymour, New York, NY, for Amici Curiae Dr. Paul Edelen, Dr. Kenneth Dardick, Dr. Michelle Barry, Dr. Robert J. Bund, Dr. Walter T. McPhee, Dr. Michael Keenan, Dr. Christopher S. Sewell, and Dr. A. Goswami.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jeffrey Clair (Barbara C. Biddle, of counsel;  Robert D. McCallum, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, and John A. Danaher, III, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, on the brief), United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Defendant-Appellee.