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Fourth Circuit Rules that State Health Plans Must Cover Gender-Affirming Care

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Last week, the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issued a decision holding that state health care plans in North Carolina and West Virginia must cover gender-affirming surgeries. A copy of the decision, Kadel v....more

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Investigations Newsletter: Walgreens Medicaid Fraud Case Kicked Back to Trial Court

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Walgreens Medicaid Fraud Case Kicked Back to Trial Court - On August 15, 2023, the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issued an opinion reversing a district judge’s dismissal of False Claims Act (FCA) claims...more

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Supremes Greenlight Florida State’s Medicaid Lien on Settlement Proceeds for Future Medical Expenses

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On June 6, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its ruling in Gallardo vs. Marstiller. In an opinion drafted by Justice Clarence Thomas, the Court held that the federal Medicaid Act, specifically §1396k(a)(1)(A), permits a...more

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US Supreme Court Validates Medicaid State Agency’s Right to Wipe Out Tort Recoveries from Medicaid Beneficiaries

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The Supreme Court delivered a huge blow to tort victims in a recent decision that will effectively eliminate the tort victim’s settlement/award by expanding the ability of states to recoup health care costs from accident...more

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Supreme Court Expands States' Ability to Recoup Future Medicaid Costs from Tort Recoveries

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The U.S. Supreme Court interpreted the Medicaid Act on June 6, 2022, to permit state Medicaid programs to recover costs for future medical care that has not yet been provided and may never be provided from Medicaid...more

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Supreme Court Decides Gallardo v. Marstiller

On June 6, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Gallardo v. Marstiller, No. 20-1263, holding that the federal Medicaid Act does not preempt Florida’s policies dictating how the State can obtain Medicaid reimbursements from...more

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Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against New York State for Failure to Provide Legally Required Mental Health Services to...

Proskauer, in conjunction with attorneys from Children’s Rights, Disability Rights New York, and the National Health Law Program, have filed a class action lawsuit against New York officials in response to the mental health...more

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King & Spalding Represents Medicaid Beneficiaries in a Suit to Challenge the Approval of the TennCare III Medicaid Demonstration...

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On April 22, 2021, thirteen Medicaid beneficiaries, represented by the National Health Law Program, the Tennessee Justice Center, and King & Spalding, filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia...more

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HHS Revokes Arkansas and New Hampshire Medicaid Work Requirements

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On March 17, 2021, HHS notified Arkansas and New Hampshire officials that it was withdrawing its approval of demonstration projects which had permitted those states to impose work requirements as a condition for eligibility...more

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Push for Medicaid Work Requirements Encounters Headwinds

Efforts by the federal government and some states to require certain Medicaid beneficiaries to work in order to maintain eligibility for benefits has run into a series of obstacles, both in the courts and in state...more

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Healthcare Law Update: June 2017

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Medicaid - Florida's Medicaid Third-Party Liability Act Pre-empted by Federal Law - By Eddie Williams - In Gallardo v. Dudek, Sec. of Florida Agency for Health Care Administration, No. 4:16cv116-MW/CAS, 2017 WL...more

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The Supreme Court Holds That Medicaid Providers Cannot Sue To Enforce Federal Reimbursement Rate Standards

On March 31, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in Armstrong v. Exceptional Child Center, Inc., holding that Medicaid providers cannot sue to enforce reimbursement standards set forth in federal Medicaid law....more

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Supreme Court Blocks Provider Challenges to Medicaid Program

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On March 31, 2015, the Supreme Court issued the first of several expected decisions that will impact the healthcare industry this year, ruling that Medicaid providers have no constitutional or statutory right to challenge a...more

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Supreme Court Holds Providers Cannot Sue States to Challenge Low Medicaid Rates

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The Supreme Court ruled, on March 31, in a 5-4 decision, that hospitals and all other providers cannot sue to force a state to pay higher Medicaid rates. The name of the case is Armstrong v. Exception Child Center. In...more

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Supreme Court Holds that Medicaid Providers Do Not Have Right to Challenge Medicaid Reimbursement Rates under Supremacy Clause

Yesterday, the United States Supreme Court issued an opinion that denies providers the right to challenge low Medicaid reimbursement rates by suing state agencies in federal court. In Armstrong v. Exceptional Child...more

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Medicaid Decision Makes Strange Bedfellows

The Idaho Medicaid program scored a victory in the United States Supreme Court today, and did it by persuading normally liberal Justice Breyer to enter the conservative tent reliably inhabited by Justices Scalia, Thomas,...more

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The Supreme Court Hears Case Regarding Private Enforcement of the Medicaid Act Against States

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On Tuesday, January 20, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral argument in a significant Medicaid-preemption case from the Ninth Circuit, Exceptional Child Center, Inc. v. Armstrong. In that case, Medicaid-participating...more

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