United States v. Alpha Medical, Inc.

*9 ORDER

Alpha Medical, Inc. (Alpha) appeals a district court order denying its motion for costs as a prevailing party pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §§ 1920 and 2412, Fed.R.Civ.P. 54, and E.D. Tenn. R. 54.1. The parties have waived oral argument and this panel unanimously agrees that oral argument is not needed in this case. Fed. R.App. P. 34(a).

In August 1997, the United States charged Alpha, along with two individual and one corporate codefendants, with submitting false and/or fraudulent claims to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’s Health Care Financing Administration. The government…