6th Circuit Affirms ACA Age Discrimination, Expert Opinion Rulings

Mealey's (July 22, 2021, 1:54 PM EDT) -- CINCINNATI — The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) incorporates standards from the discrimination statutes from which it borrows, including administrative exhaustion requirements, a court properly admitted experts on the question of the medical appropriateness of an elderly woman’s transfer, and without experts of his own, a son lacks the necessary evidence for his remaining claims, a Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel said July 20 in affirming dismissal and summary judgment rulings....