ADH LAW News
Cary Devorsetz is elected to serve another term on the District of Columbia Chapter of the Federal Bar Association's Board of Directors. He formerly served as the Board's President and National Delegate. (July 2008)
The Firm recently participated in bringing about a $666 million dollar settlement, one of the largest government settlements ever paid to healthcare providers. Beginning in 2002, hospitals which ultimately became 667 in number sued the Secretary of Health and Human Services for his use of an improper policy to calculate payments under the Medicare Act to hospitals serving disproportionate numbers of poor people. This Firm, which represented a total of 41 hospitals in the lawsuit, was aided in its efforts by Quality Reimbursement Services, a premier Medicare reimbursement consulting firm specializing in Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) payments.
Due to the number of plaintiffs in the litigation, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia took the unusual step of consolidating all the separate complaints, which exceeded 250 in number,into one matter, designated In Re Medicare Reimbursement.
One group of hospitals was selected to be the lead plaintiffs and this group obtained a favorable decision from the District Court in 2004. The government appealed and lost before the Court of Appeals in 2005.In April 2006 the U.S. Supreme Court denied the government’s request for further review. This forced the government to undertake settlement negotiations with the entire group of plaintiff hospitals. Those negotiations started in April 2006 and continued until March 2008 when the government signed a settlement agreement calling for a payout of over $666 million dollars to the plaintiff hospitals. Les Alderman and Erling Hansen of the Firm worked hard to achieve equitable DSH payouts for the Firm’s 41 hospital clients. (April 2008)
Notice of Class Action Lawsuit. The Firm represents U.S. Citizen-employees of the Voice of America who have been passed over for selection or promotion in favor of non-citizens The class action complaint against the Voice of America is that the Agency violated federal law by requiring U.S. Citizens to be "equally or better qualified" than the non-U.S. Citizens. The federal law requires the Voice of America to give preference to citizens. The suit hopes to require the Voice of America to give the U.S. Citizens retroactive and prospective relief from its unlawful hiring practices. Please contact Les Alderman for further information. (December 2007)
Alderman, Devorsetz & Hora is selected by the Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs to receive the Committee's Outstanding Achievement Award for the Firm's pro bono efforts on behalf of the Committee's Public Accommodations Project. The Award was presented at the Wiley A. Branton Awards Luncheon on June 14, 2007 at the Grand Hyatt Washington Hotel. (June 2007)
Sundeep Hora has been chosen by his peers to serve a three-year term as a Section Steering Committee member for the Law Practice Management Section of the District of Columbia Bar. (June 2007)
Cary Devorsetz selected by District of Columbia Bar to serve a three-year term on the Bar's Election Board. (June 2007)
