Oakland Physicians Medical Center v. Price

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA _________________________________________ ) OAKLAND PHYSICIANS MEDICAL ) CENTER, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) v. ) Case No. 17-cv-00392 (APM) ) ALEX M. AZAR, 1 ) ) Defendant. ) _________________________________________ ) MEMORANDUM OPINION I. INTRODUCTION To appeal, or not to appeal? That is the question Plaintiff Oakland Physicians Medical Center faced in the fall of 2014, after a Medicare administrative contractor (“MAC”) issued two Notices of Program Reimbursement (“NPR”) for the fiscal years ending in 2010 and 2011, which Plaintiff viewed as…