Medicare Beneficiary Again Appeals Coverage Review Action To 11th Circuit

Mealey's (February 14, 2022, 8:11 AM EST) -- BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A Medicare beneficiary on Jan. 10 indicated that he intends to appeal to the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals for the second time a federal judge in Alabama’s ruling dispensing with his suit seeking judicial review by the secretary of Health and Human Services of an administrative law judge’s denial of coverage for a cancer therapy; the judge dismissed the suit after finding, on remand from the 11th Circuit, that the beneficiary lacked standing under Article III of the U.S. Constitution....