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081983P.pdf   01/30/2009  Dolores Mathis  v.  Michael O. Leavitt
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  08-1983
   U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Kansas City   
   [PUBLISHED] [Arnold, Author, with Loken, Chief Judge, and Beam,
   Circuit Judge]
Civil case - Medicare. Medicare had a right to reimbursement of plaintiff's decedent's medical expenses, and recovery was not barred by the Missouri wrongful death statute.