Legal Opinion
Mobile Medical Services, Inc. v. Arkansas Blue Cross & Blue Shield
District Court, W.D. Arkansas
Decided December 11, 1987No. Civ. 87-2017PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
MORRIS SHEPPARD ARNOLD, District Judge.
Between January, 1984, and April, 1986, Mobile Medical Services, Inc., provided on-site X-rays 1 to certain nursing home patients throughout Arkansas. Mobile Medical then billed Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield, the state Medicare carrier, for those X-rays, and Blue Cross paid the bills. Subsequently, Blue Cross reviewed those bills in more detail and determined that the X-rays in question were not covered under Medicare. Blue Cross then asked for repayment of $88,361.61 from Mobile Medical.
Mobile Medical requested a carrier hearing…
2Cases cited4 opinions
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- Michigan Academy of Family Physicians v. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Michigan and Richard S. Schweiker, Secretary of Health and Human ServicesCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1985
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