Landers v. Leavitt

RULING ON PLAINTIFFS’ MOTIONS FOR CLASS CERTIFICATION [Doc. NOS. 8, 10 and 21]

HALL, District Judge.

The named plaintiffs are Medicare beneficiaries who were denied coverage for stays in a skilled nursing facility. Medicare, Title XVIII of the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1395 et seq., provides for coverage for such stays. However, the Medicare statute provides for coverage only where services are “furnished an individual after transfer from a hospital in which he was an inpatient for not less than 3 consecutive days before his discharge from the hospital in connection with such transfer.”…