Judge: Provision Of Inadequate Interpreter Can’t Support ACA Discrimination Claim

Mealey's (December 18, 2020, 1:22 PM EST) -- ATLANTA — A clerk entered judgment on Dec. 15 after a federal judge in Georgia said a medical provider’s procurement of an unlicensed interpreter who was a friend of an employee, resulting in a deaf woman resorting to written notes, gives rise to questions about whether effective communication occurred but that the woman’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) and other claims fail because she cannot show that the hospital misrepresented the situation, failed in its duties or acted intentionally (Tracy Nix v. Advanced Urology Institute of Georgia PC, No. 18-4656, N.D. Ga.; 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 234855)....