Texas Clinical Labs, Inc. v. Kathleen Sebel

CARL E. STEWART, Circuit Judge:

Texas Clinical Laboratories, Inc. and Texas Clinical Laboratories-Gulf Division, Inc. (collectively, the “TCLs”) appeal the district court’s judgment denying them additional interest on the principal of a Medicare reimbursement ruling rendered in their favor against the Department of Health and Human Services (the “DHHS”). For the reasons below, we affirm.

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The dispute between the TCLs and the DHHS began around 1986, when the DHHS implemented a new formula for calculating reimbursement for certain health care providers for travel expenses. The TCLs objected to…