Mealey's (January 12, 2017, 2:51 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA)’s risk-corridor program is a money-mandating source of law that requires annual payment, a federal judge held Jan. 10 in denying a motion to dismiss an insurer’s action seeking declaratory judgment that the government owes it millions of dollars under the program (Health Republic Insurance Co. v. The United States of America, No. 16-259, Fed. Clms.)....