Government, Amicus Say ACA Never Mandated Risk-Corridor Payments

Mealey's (October 28, 2019, 1:45 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) never appropriated funds for the risk corridor, and congressional action later limited how the program would function, dooming insurers’ suit seeking billions of dollars from the government, an amicus curiae told the U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 25 on the heels of the government’s Oct. 21 respondent brief (Land of Lincoln Mutual Health Insurance Co. v. United States, No. 18-1038, Moda Health Plan Inc., et al. v. United States, No. 18-1028, Maine Community Health Options v. United States, No. 18-1023, U.S. Sup.)....