(April 18, 2017, 7:50 AM EDT) -- MIAMI — A Florida federal judge on March 23 granted the Department of Health and Human Service’s (HHS) summary judgment motion, saying that the HHS’s Medicare Appeals Council (MAC) correctly ruled that the Medicare secondary payer statute (MSP) allows the HHS to recover the full amount of money it paid in conditional payments from the date of an accident through the date of settlement (Barbara Shapiro v. Secretary of Department of Health and Human Services, No. 15-22151, S.D. Fla., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 42278)....