New Jersey Speech-Language-Hearing Ass'n v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America

OPINION OF THE COURT

JAMES HUNTER, III, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs in this civil action are two organizations of speech pathologists and audiologists and three individually named speech therapy professionals. They brought suit against the United States Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), the Health Care Financing Administration (“HCFA”), Prudential Insurance Company of America (“Prudential”) in its capacity as a fiscal intermediary under the Medicare Program, and several individual officers of HHS and HCFA who were responsible for administering the Medicare Program. Plaintiffs…