Legal Opinion
Briggs v. Commonwealth
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided March 22, 1999PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtMarshall, J.
Two elderly patients insured by the Federal *242Medicare program received identical medical services from a physician. Medicare did not dispute the physician’s charges, and paid him eighty per cent, as provided by Medicare. The physician then billed the first patient for her twenty per cent “copayment.” She paid him, as she had agreed to do under the Medicare program. The second patient could not afford to pay her twenty per cent “copayment,” so the physician turned to the division of medical assistance, the Massachusetts agency responsible for administering the Medicaid program. The division…
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