A federal appeals court has again ruled that 230,000 Medicare Part D beneficiaries who were erroneously mailed a premium refund do not have the right to apply for a waiver excusing them from repaying the money. Action Alliance of Senior Citizens v. Sebelius (D.C. Cir., No. 09-5191, June 18, 2010).
Because of a computer error, in August 2006 approximately 230,000 people were mistakenly mailed refunds for their Medicare prescription drug benefit premiums. The Bush administration insisted that the money, which averaged $215 per beneficiary, be paid back by the end of September 2006.
Surrogate Decision Making Comes To New York
The Family Health Care Decisions Act became New York Law on March 16, 2010. The new law covers New York residents (other than the developmentally disabled and the mentally retarded who are covered under a different statute) who lack the capacity to make health care and end of life decisions for themselves, even if such individuals previously had capacity but never expressed their wishes in a health care proxy or living will. This new law was 17 years in the making.
On September 1, 2009, Powers of Attorney in New York State will change dramatically. Both the format and the execution of these documents are significantly different.
Remedies for an unreasonable refusal to accept a properly executed Power of Attorney are limited by the new law to a special proceeding to force the acceptance. Damages are no longer possible.
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