Attorneys Look to 9th Circuit in Suit Over CMS Tactics

By John P. Kamin, Legal EditorAttorneys are waiting for the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to schedule oral arguments in a putative class action suit that challenges the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' tactics in the conditional payment recovery process, which could have significant implications for injured workers, payers, and attorneys.The parties in the case titled Haro v. Sebelius have completed briefing at the 9th Circuit, where CMS is appealing a federal district court's ruling that was critical of the agency's conditional payment recovery process. In May, a fe...