On Thursday, June 17, 2021, in a 7-2 opinion, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act (“ACA”) in the case California v. Texas. The Court held that Texas, the other plaintiff states, and the two individual
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Biden Administration Withdraws Work Requirement Approvals in Arkansas and New Hampshire
Medicaid is the largest health coverage source in the United States, covering approximately 70 million individuals including children, pregnant women, people with disabilities, elderly adults, and in states that have expanded their Medicaid programs under the Affordable Care Act, low-income…
COVID-19 Update: Biden Executive Order Creates Special Enrollment Period
On January 28, 2021, President Biden issued an Executive Order entitled Executive Order on Strengthening Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act (“Executive Order”). “In light of the exceptional circumstances caused by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic”, the Executive Order creates a…
Supreme Court to Hold Oral Arguments on Certain Republican States’ Challenge to the ACA on November 10
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on certain red states’ challenge to the Affordable Care Act on November 10, one week after the November 3 presidential election, according to the court’s online docket released on Wednesday, August 19. …
U.S. Supreme Court Rules that the Federal Government “Shall” Pay Health Insurers $12 Billion Under the Risk Corridors Program
On Monday, April 27, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, in an 8-1 decision, that the federal government is required to pay health insurers $12 billion under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) risk corridors program.
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U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals affirms the ACA’s individual mandate penalty is unconstitutional and remands the case to the lower court to examine severability
On Wednesday, December 18, 2019, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held in Texas v. Azar that the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) individual mandate is unconstitutional and remanded the case to the lower court for further review.…
Republican Study Committee Releases Affordable Care Act Replacement plan
The Republican Party will soon be the party of health care. You watch.
-President Donald J. Trump, March 23, 2019
Opening with the above quote from President Trump, the Republican Study Committee (RSC) released the first part of its healthcare…
Medicaid update
The Trump Administration took several steps this past week in support of its efforts to transform the Medicaid program.…
Hospital alert: CMS hospital transparency requirements in effect January 1, 2019
On January 1, 2019, all hospitals are required to make public a list of their standard charges. As a reminder, Section 2718(e) of the Public Health Service Act, as enacted by the Affordable Care Act, requires:
“each hospital operating within
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Judge declares ACA unconstitutional
On Friday, December 14, Judge Reed O’Connor of the Federal District Court in the Northern District of Texas issued a declaratory judgment holding the shared responsibility provision (also referred to as the “Individual Mandate”), and with it, the entire Affordable…