United States Eighth Circuit

Medicare+Choice reimbursement provisions to HMOs that encourage them to pass cost savings to beneficiaries do not violate the Equal Protection Clause or the Privileges and Immunities Clause even if the calculations result in geographic disparities.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/13/2001
• Published 12/13/2001

Judges

• LOKEN, Circuit Judge., Before LOKEN, ROSS, and FAGG, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Daniel E. Gustafson, Minneapolis, MN, argued (Samuel D. Heins and Karla M. Gluek, on the brief), for plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Alisa B. Klein, Civil Div. of the Justice Dept., Washington, DC, argued (Mark B. Stern, Justice Dept., on the brief), for defendants-appellees.