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Battle Creek Health Sys. v. Leavitt

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Health Law
In an action pursuant to the Social Security Act and Administrative Procedure Act brought by certain acute-care hospitals and participating Medicare...

Urban v. Meconi

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Health Law
In a matter involving a claimant's request for breast reduction surgery under the Medicaid Early and Periodic Screening Diagnostic and Treatment...

Renfrow v. Astrue

Administrative Law, Evidence, Government Benefits, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
Summary judgment against claimant on a claim for social security disability insurance is affirmed as any error in an ALJ's failure to ask a vocational...

Samons v. Astrue

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
Denial of a claim for disability benefits and supplemental security income is affirmed where: 1) the ALJ did not err in refusing to give significant...

Newhouse v. Nicholson

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Government Law, Health Law, Military Law
A veterans court decision denying claimant an increased disability rating for his hearing loss is affirmed as the Veterans Court did not err by...

Schmidt v. Astrue

Government Benefits, Health Law
Order upholding the denial of applications for disability insurance benefits and supplemental security income by the Social Security Administration is...

US ex rel. Boothe v. Sun Healthcare Group, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Government Benefits, Government Law, Health Law
In a qui tam action under the False Claims Act (FCA) alleging that defendant overbilled the government for Medicare in ten distinct ways, a district...

Pelea v. Nicholson

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Government Benefits, Military Law, Probate, Trusts & Estates
The estate of a veteran's widow may not continue to pursue her unadjudicated claim for benefits based on the veteran's military service.

Horras v. Leavitt

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Health Law
Civil monetary penalties, assessments, and exclusions from all federal health care programs, imposed by the Department of Health and Human Services...

Wojchowski v. Daines

Civil Procedure, Government Benefits
Dismissal of claim that the process used by New York State to determine the resource allowance of a community spouse whose institutionalized spouse...