No. 21-7834

Anne P. Mulligan v. Johnna Kohl

Lower Court: Alaska
Docketed: 2022-05-11
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: billing-practices charity-care medicaid-fraud medical-billing medical-ethics patient-privacy physician-ethics tax-deduction tax-deductions
Latest Conference: 2022-09-28
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Can a physician legally obtain a patient's Medicaid information without the patient's knowledge and bill Medicaid?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED 8 (1) Dr. Kohl is a physician who did not accept Adult Medicaid for her adult patients. Can Dr. Kohl legally obtain a patient’s Medicaid information without the patient’s knowledge and legally bill 9 || Alaska Medicaid? (2) Can Dr. Kohl legally accept Medicaid payments on behalf of an Adult patient without a 10 |} patient knowing about it? i (3) Dr. Kohl’s stated on her website that she does not accept Adult Medicaid yet through deceptive practice’s did not make Anne Mulligan aware of what she was doing. Is Anne Mulligan legally 12 || responsible for the Medicaid Fraud that Dr. Kohl had committed? 13 (4) On 11/23/2016, Dr. Kohl had abused and had invoked Alaska Statue 47 to have Anne Mulligan institutionalized for a 24-hour observation at a psychiatric ward for a cough. It was during this 2414 || hour observation that Anne Mulligan was diagnosed with Bronchitis. Dr, Koh! had billed Anne Mulligan’s cancelled health insurance with Blue Cross Blue Shield for 5.31 at $197.00 per hour for a total of $1,047.00. 15 |) Dr. Kohl had received a check from Anne Mulligan’s cancelled health insurance company Blue Cross Blue Shield for $603.52 leaving a balance of $443.48 owed to Dr. Kohl. Who is legally responsible for the remainin 16 || balance as Dr. Kohl never billed Anne Mulligan? 17 (5) On 06/07/2017, Dr. Kohl had discharged Anne Mulligan as her patient because Anne Mulligan had obtained a copy of her medical records. Dr. Kohl had not asked Anne Mulligan or made any 18 || attempt or arrangements to collect the balance of $774.80 in which that was owed to Dr. Kohl. Who is legally responsible for the remaining balance? 19 (6) On September 1, 2017, Dr. Kohl had received two (2) payments (1) $281.80 and (2)493.00 20 || for a total of $774.80 from Charity Care on behalf of Anne Mulligan. Anne Mulligan did not have a payee or a legal guardian on her behalf. Did Dr. Kohl have a legal right to apply for Charity Care on behalf of her 21 || former patient Anne Mulligan after Dr. Kohl had discharged Anne Mulligan? 22 (7) Dr. Kohl had illegally collected $774.80 on behalf of Anne Mulligan through Charity Care in which it allowed Dr. Kohl to claim the $774.80 on her taxes as a business deduction or a business 23 || credit. Can Dr. Kohl still claim Anne Mulligan Charity Care information on future tax business deduction or business credit? 24 (8) Anne Mulligan has requested a copy of the Charity Care paperwork that Dr. Kohl had filed on behalf of Anne Mulligan in 2017 after Dr. Kohl had discharged Anne Mulligan from her practice. Dr. 25 || Kohl and her attorney’s Greg Henrickson and Laura Eakes of Walker &Eakes LLC refuse to give Anne Mulligan a copy of the Charity Care paperwork that was illegally filed on her behalf without her knowledge. 26 || Is Anne Mulligan legally allowed to have a copy of the Charity Care paperwork that was illegally filled out on| her behalf? 27 PAGE ] 28 MULLIGAN VS KOHL,SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATE UESTIONS PRESENTED

Docket Entries

2022-10-03
Petition DENIED.
2022-06-23
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/28/2022.
2022-05-03
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due June 10, 2022)

Attorneys

Anne P. Mulligan
Anne Patricia Mulligan — Petitioner