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Is a Civil Rights Lawsuit by Private Parties a Means to Enforce a Federal Free Choice of Medicaid Provider Provision? A Spending...

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CASE AT A GLANCE - In 2018, Planned Parenthood South Atlantic (PPSAT) and one of its patients, Julie Edwards, sued the administrator of South Carolina’s Medicaid program to enforce the “free choice of Medicaid provider”...more

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Fourth Circuit Rules that State Health Plans Must Cover Gender-Affirming Care

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Last week, the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issued a decision holding that state health care plans in North Carolina and West Virginia must cover gender-affirming surgeries. A copy of the decision, Kadel v....more

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Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against New York State for Failure to Provide Legally Required Mental Health Services to...

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Proskauer, in conjunction with attorneys from Children’s Rights, Disability Rights New York, and the National Health Law Program, have filed a class action lawsuit against New York officials in response to the mental health...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

The Supreme Court Holds That Medicaid Providers Cannot Sue To Enforce Federal Reimbursement Rate Standards

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On March 31, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in Armstrong v. Exceptional Child Center, Inc., holding that Medicaid providers cannot sue to enforce reimbursement standards set forth in federal Medicaid law....more

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Supreme Court Blocks Provider Challenges to Medicaid Program

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On March 31, 2015, the Supreme Court issued the first of several expected decisions that will impact the healthcare industry this year, ruling that Medicaid providers have no constitutional or statutory right to challenge a...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Supreme Court Holds Providers Cannot Sue States to Challenge Low Medicaid Rates

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The Supreme Court ruled, on March 31, in a 5-4 decision, that hospitals and all other providers cannot sue to force a state to pay higher Medicaid rates. The name of the case is Armstrong v. Exception Child Center. In...more

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Supreme Court Holds that Medicaid Providers Do Not Have Right to Challenge Medicaid Reimbursement Rates under Supremacy Clause

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Yesterday, the United States Supreme Court issued an opinion that denies providers the right to challenge low Medicaid reimbursement rates by suing state agencies in federal court. In Armstrong v. Exceptional Child...more

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Medicaid Decision Makes Strange Bedfellows

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The Idaho Medicaid program scored a victory in the United States Supreme Court today, and did it by persuading normally liberal Justice Breyer to enter the conservative tent reliably inhabited by Justices Scalia, Thomas,...more

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The Supreme Court Hears Case Regarding Private Enforcement of the Medicaid Act Against States

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On Tuesday, January 20, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral argument in a significant Medicaid-preemption case from the Ninth Circuit, Exceptional Child Center, Inc. v. Armstrong. In that case, Medicaid-participating...more

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