Alert! Eleventh Circuit: Contractual Obligation Sufficient to Establish “Demonstrated Responsibility
What qualifies as a “demonstrated responsibility” sufficient to proceed under the private cause of action provision of the Medicare Secondary Payer Act has been a recent hot topic of discussion. Following the Eleventh Circuit’s decision in Glover v. Liggett Group, several courts found that a contractual relationship alone would not suffice. Recently, however, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision that will change the way that we think about this requirement