Mealey's (August 25, 2021, 9:30 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Aug. 20 denied the U.S. government’s petition for a panel rehearing of its appeal seeking to vacate a $24.5 million award for an insolvent insurer’s liquidator, rejecting the government’s challenge to the court’s finding that it does not have a right to offset Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) obligations during the insolvency proceeding and that the U.S. Court of Federal Claims’ money judgment was proper....