       NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.


  United States Court of Appeals
      for the Federal Circuit
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   BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD OF NORTH
                CAROLINA,
              Plaintiff-Appellant

                           v.

                  UNITED STATES,
                  Defendant-Appellee
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                      2017-2154
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    Appeal from the United States Court of Federal
Claims in No. 1:16-cv-00651-LKG, Judge Lydia Kay
Griggsby.
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                 Decided: July 9, 2018
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    LAWRENCE SHER, Reed Smith LLP, Washington, DC,
for plaintiff-appellant. Also represented by KYLE RICHARD
BAHR, JAMES CHRISTOPHER MARTIN, CONOR MICHAEL
SHAFFER, COLIN E. WRABLEY, Pittsburgh, PA.

    ALISA BETH KLEIN, Appellate Staff, Civil Division,
United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC,
for defendant-appellee. Also represented by MARK B.
STERN, CHAD A. READLER.
2                 BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD v. UNITED STATES




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        Before PROST, Chief Judge, NEWMAN and MOORE,
                        Circuit Judges.
    PROST, Chief Judge.
       For the reasons stated in our decisions in Moda
    Health Plan, Inc. v. United States, 17-1994, and Land of
    Lincoln Mutual Health Insurance Co. v. United States, 17-
    1224, and consistent with the statement of appellant Blue
    Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina, we affirm.
       Appellant’s motion for entry of judgment and previous
    motions to allow argument are denied as moot.
                          AFFIRMED
