(April 18, 2017, 9:02 AM EDT) -- CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — A Missouri federal judge on March 30 granted a summary judgment motion filed on behalf of new Health and Human Services Secretary Thomas E. Price and dismissed a case against the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) because the plaintiff did not exhaust all of her administrative remedies under the Medicare Act (Nikkco L. Fortner v. Thomas E. Price, et al., No. 1:16-cv-279, E.D. Mo., Southeastern Div., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 47581)....