David v. Heckler

MEMORANDUM and ORDER

WEINSTEIN, Chief Judge:

This case began in Queens Small Claims Court where Joseph David filed suit for underpayment of Medicare reimbursement claims of his cancer-ridden wife. The United States removed the case to this court where Mr. David graphically explained that the grounds for his complaint were “the arbitrary mutilation of normal charges by considerate physicians.” The case has since expanded into a class action on behalf of hundreds of thousands of older people in Queens, New York whose Medicare Part B claims have been subjected to diminution and who allege that the…