Mealey's (April 15, 2022, 1:24 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on April 13 affirmed a district court’s grant of summary judgment to a health insurance company in a suit filed by the wife of a deceased Medicare patient against the company regarding its administration of her deceased husband’s Medicare Advantage (MA) plan, finding that the Medicare Act’s “express preemption provision” barred her state law claims....