Clarian Health West, LLC v. Burwell

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ) CLARIAN HEALTH WEST, LLC, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) v. ) Civil Action No. 14-cv-0339 (KBJ) ) SYLVIA MATHEWS BURWELL, ) ) Defendant. ) ) MEMORANDUM OPINION The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) is the sub-agency within the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) that administers the federal health insurance program known as Medicare. In 2012, an agent of CMS informed Plaintiff Clarian Health West, LLC (“Clarian”), an Indiana hospital, that it needed to repay more than $2 million in Medicare reimbursement funds that…