In Re: Administrative Subpoena Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Inc.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

SARIS, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

This action arises out of a federal criminal investigation of a Massachusetts physician (“Doctor”), a provider with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, for health care fraud. The government suspects that the Doctor bills Medicare for an expensive specialized treatment for patients with a rare disease when the patients have not been properly diagnosed with the disease. The government served Blue Cross with an administrative subpoena under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, 18 U.S.C. § 3486(a)(1)(A),…