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The Department Of Health And Human Services Vs. Attorneys: Will The Federal Courts Tame An Agency Run Amuck, Anne M. Rife
The Department Of Health And Human Services Vs. Attorneys: Will The Federal Courts Tame An Agency Run Amuck, Anne M. Rife
Anne M Rife
The Department of Health and Human Services vs. Attorneys – Can and Will the Federal Courts Tame an Agency Run Amuck? ABSTRACT Medicare has been a system destined for financial trouble arguably since its creation in 1965. For years, Congress and the Department of Health and Human Services (“DHHS”) have passed legislation, regulations, and implemented procedures to try to save it. But, when DHHS decided to protect Medicare by suing attorneys, it took its role too far and placed attorneys in an ethical and procedural maelstrom. In Haro v. Sebelius, the United States District Court of Arizona recently addressed DHHS’s …