Mealey's (December 9, 2021, 10:45 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A federal judge on Nov. 30 held that the U.S. government cannot use an administrative offset to make an “end-run around” a state liquidation process, “particularly not where the government elected to participate in that process and had its claim decided,” finding that the Nevada commissioner of Insurance as receiver for the Nevada Health CO-OP (NHC) is entitled to judgment on all claims in her lawsuit alleging that the government improperly withheld payments under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA)....