Provider Suits Over Medicaid Rates: How We Got to Where We Are Today and the Shapes of Things to Come
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O n March 31, 2015, the Supreme Court issued its much anticipated (some would say dreaded) decision in Armstrong v. Exceptional Child Center, Inc. 1 A 5-4 majority (Justice Scalia, joined by Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Alito, Thomas and Breyer) concluded that health care providers have no right to sue States under the Supremacy Clause for prospective relief against Medicaid rate cuts alleged to violate Section 1902(a)(30)(A) of the Social Security Act (Section 30(A)). This article explores where we are now, how we got here, and what the future portends for the rights of providers (and Medicaid beneficiaries) to contest inadequate payment rates under what currently is the largest single insurance program in the United States.
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