Legal Opinion
American Medical Ass'n v. Bowen
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided October 14, 1988No. 87-1755PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EDITH H. JONES, Circuit Judge:
Appellants, seven individual doctors and three medical societies representing physicians nationally, in Texas, and in Lubbock-Crosby-Garza counties, challenge provisions of the Medicare program enacted as § 9381 of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (OBRA) of 1986. Pub. L. 99-509, 100 Stat. 2018 (42 U.S.C. § 1395u). Appellants allege that the Secretary’s method of implementing OBRA in late 1986 forced physicians to choose whether or not to “participate” in the program in 1987 without knowing exactly how much they would be allowed to charge Medicare patients as…
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