Parties To ACA Medicaid Backlog Suit Brief Court On Relief’s Appropriateness

(October 12, 2017, 2:13 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The District of Columbia and plaintiffs filed supplemental briefs with a federal appeals court on Oct. 10, addressing whether a settlement decree reached almost a decade ago provided an appropriate vehicle for a judge to impose new injunctive relief in a case challenging Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA)-created delays in processing Medicaid applications (Oscar Salazar, et al. v. District of Columbia, et al., Nos. 16-7065, 16-7085, 16-7100, D.C. Cir.)....