Mealey's (July 16, 2015, 1:20 PM EDT) -- LOS ANGELES — A plastic surgeon’s action claiming that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) preempts California’s bar on balance billing improperly places a federal court in the position of a state appeals court, a judge held July 6 in dismissing the action (Jeannette Martello v. Shelley Rouillard, et al., No. 15-1798, C.D. Calif.; 2015 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 88127)....