Sumner v. United States

This Medicare case comes before the court on the parties’ cross-motions for summary judgment. The two plaintiffs are the former shareholders and directors of Parkview Hospital, Inc., a now dissolved corporation that qualified for the years 1966-68 as a Medicare provider under Part A of the Medicare program, 42 U.S.C. § 1395 et seq. (1976 & Supp. Ill 1979) (the Act).1 Plaintiffs seek to recover $90,471, which the designated fiscal intermediary,2 the Blue Cross Association of Southern California (Blue Cross), assessed against them as sole surviving shareholders of Parkview after a 1972 audit of…