CMS Drops Appeal Of Ruling On Mandatory Nursing Home Arbitration

(June 7, 2017, 12:43 PM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — In a clerk order, the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on June 2 granted the U.S. government’s unopposed motion to dismiss its appeal of a case in which a preliminary injunction was granted blocking the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) ban on mandatory nursing home arbitration (American Health Care Association, et al. v. Thomas Price, Secretary U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, et al., No. 17-60005, 5th Cir.; American Health Care Association, et al. v. Sylvia Mathews Burwell, et al., No. 3:16-cv-00233, N.D. Miss.)....

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