Alacare Home Health Services, Inc. v. Sullivan

CLARK, Circuit Judge:

In this case, appellant Alacare is appealing two decisions made by the Secretary of Health and Human Services that concern reimbursement to Alacare, a Medicare provider, of reasonable costs incurred in providing Medicare benefits. The Secretary decided, first, that certain office space costs incurred by Alacare in 1980 and 1981 were excessive and, therefore, would not be reimbursed; and second, that Alacare had failed to show “good cause” for its failure to meet a filing deadline for recon*852sideration by the Secretary of costs incurred in 1984.

The district court affirmed…