Case Name: PALOMAR MEDICAL CENTER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Kathleen SEBELIUS, Secretary of Southern Health and Human Services, Defendant-Appellee
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2012-03-14
Citations: 672 F.3d 1152
Docket Number: No. 10-56529
Parties: PALOMAR MEDICAL CENTER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Kathleen SEBELIUS, Secretary of Southern Health and Human Services, Defendant-Appellee.
Judges: Before: HARRY PREGERSON, RONALD M. GOULD, and RICHARD C. TALLMAN, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: Federal Reporter 3d Series
Volume: 672
Pages: 1152–1152

Head Matter:
PALOMAR MEDICAL CENTER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Kathleen SEBELIUS, Secretary of Southern Health and Human Services, Defendant-Appellee.
No. 10-56529.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
March 14, 2012.
D.C. No. 3:09-cv-00605-BEN-NLS, Southern District of California, San Diego.
Before: HARRY PREGERSON, RONALD M. GOULD, and RICHARD C. TALLMAN, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
ORDER
The panel invites amicus briefs addressing the following questions:
(1) Do the regulations at 42 C.F.R. § 405.926(i) and 405.980(a)(5) bar administrative review of a contractor's decision to reopen a Medicare claim, including the contractor's compliance with the good cause standard for reopening set forth at 42 C.F.R. § 405.980(b)(2) and 405.986?
(2) If the regulations bar administrative review of a contractor's decision to reopen, do federal courts have jurisdiction to enforce the agency's compliance with the good cause standard for reopening?
Any person or entity wishing to file a brief as an amicus curiae in response to this order is granted leave to do so pursuant to Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 29(a). Briefs responding to this order shall be filed within 30 days of the date of this order and shall not exceed 15 pages.