Legal Opinion
Maximum Comfort Inc. v. Secretary of Health & Human Services
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided December 21, 2007No. 05-15832PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CANBY, Circuit Judge:
Appellant, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, administers the federal Medicare program. Appellee Maximum Comfort, Inc. supplies power-operated wheelchairs to Medicare beneficiaries. The Secretary determined that Maximum Comfort was not entitled to reimbursement for equipment it supplied to certain Medicare beneficiaries, because the company did not establish sufficiently that the power wheelchairs were medically necessary. Maximum Comfort sought judicial review of the Secretary’s determination, and the district court reversed. The Secretary now appeals.
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