Medicaid-ACA Actuarial Fee Case Untimely, Unsuccessful, 5th Circuit Says

Mealey's (March 9, 2021, 4:06 PM EST) -- NEW ORLEANS — States’ Administrative Procedure Act claim to a 2002 Medicaid actuarial soundness rule is untimely, there was nothing unlawful about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) delegating authority to a private entity and constitutional challenges to the ACA rule fail, a Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel said Feb. 21 in partially affirming lower court rulings after a petition for rehearing....