Mealey's (January 26, 2022, 2:23 PM EST) -- NEW YORK — The Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Jan. 25 affirmed a lower court’s finding that the U.S. secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) violated the due process rights of a class of Medicare beneficiaries placed on observation status after being admitted to the hospital as inpatients, depriving of them of their property interest in Part A coverage, and order that the secretary create a process to permit those members to appeal the denial of their coverage, finding “no merit” to the secretary’s challenges....