It's Just Too Big a Mess

Kendall v. Scripps Health, No. D070390A (D4d1 Oct. 23, 2017)

A Patient got a $17,500 bill for services that the Hospital admitted would have been reimbursed at about $2k to Medicare or Medi-Cal. So he brought a class action to challenge the Hospital’s opaque billing practices. But the trial court denied class cert because common questions weren’t predominant and the class was not ascertainable. The Court of Appeal affirms on both grounds.