Mealey's (October 7, 2019, 7:35 AM EDT) -- HARTFORD, Conn. — A class of Medicare recipients in a Sept. 19 post-trial brief tell a Connecticut federal court that they have been deprived of a protected property interest by state action without due process of law and that the failure of the secretary of Health and Human Services to allow them to appeal to Medicare the issue of the classification of their hospital services under Medicare rules violates the Fifth Amendment’s due process clause (Christina Alexander, et al. v. Alex M. Azar II, No. 11-1703, D. Conn.)....