Federal Medicare law preempts state law for Medicare benefits administrators seeking reimbursement from beneficiaries who won settlements from third parties, a state appellate court ruled Wednesday.
The Third District Court of Appeal reversed a ruling that allowed Medicare benefits administrator Humana Medical Plan Inc. to recover only a sliver of the $19,000 in benefits it paid to a woman, then 86, who fell at her condominium building in 2009. She and the building later settled for $135,000 in medical expenses and noneconomic damages.
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