Estate of Landers Ex Rel. Landers v. Leavitt

LIVINGSTON, Circuit Judge:

In this case — a dispute about how to count to three — the plaintiffs-appellants are Medicare beneficiaries who appeal from a grant of summary judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut (Hall, J.). Each of them spent at least three days in the hospital but was discharged less than three days after having been formally admitted, and each sought coverage under Part A of the Medicare program for a post-hospitalization nursing home stay. After their claims for coverage were initially denied, they brought this lawsuit challenging the…