ACA Mandates Billions In Risk-Corridor Payments, Supreme Court Says

Mealey's (April 27, 2020, 12:28 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) risk-corridor program mandated payments that subsequent appropriations riders did not eliminate, and an insolvent insurer and its fellow petitioners may pursue the billions of dollars in lost payments in federal court, a majority of the U.S. Supreme Court said April 27 (Land of Lincoln Mutual Health Insurance Co. v. United States, No. 18-1038, Moda Health Plan Inc., et al. v. United States, No. 18-1028, Maine Community Health Options v. United States, No. 18-1023, U.S. Sup.)....