Mealey's (March 5, 2021, 1:22 PM EST) -- NEW YORK — Medicare beneficiaries placed on observation status after being admitted to the hospital as inpatients urge the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in a March 3 brief to affirm a lower court’s ruling ordering the secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to create a procedure that will permit them to challenge the decisions to change their status, rejecting the secretary’s arguments that they lack standing and that the lower court erred in concluding that their due process rights were violated and improperly allowed the case to proceed as a class action....