Split High Court Reverses 6th Circuit, Finds No MSPA Violation In Dialysis Rates Case

Mealey's (June 21, 2022, 12:18 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Reversing and remanding a Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals decision, a split U.S. Supreme Court on June 21 ruled that “a group health plan that provides limited benefits for outpatient dialysis — but does so uniformly for all plan participants” does not violate the Medicare Secondary Payer Act (MSPA), with a partial dissent by two justices based on outpatient dialysis being “an almost perfect proxy for end stage renal disease.”...