On March 8, the White House encouraged Congress to pass stabilization legislation that would not authorize the reimbursement of cost-sharing reductions (CSRs) made by health plans in 2017, as reported by Modern Healthcare. This move comes almost five months after the Trump Administration’s announcement in October that it would discontinue CSR payments effective immediately. The legislation, if passed, would preclude the government from paying CSRs for the 2017 year and would allow CMS to claw back surplus money that plans have received from the federal government and applied towards CSRs.
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Court Delays Action on Appeal of ACA Subsidies Case
By Christopher Flynn, Joseph Miller & A. Xavier Baker on
Posted in Exchanges, Health Care Reform & ACA
On December 5, 2016, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued an order to stay the administration’s appeal of the district court decision in U.S. House of Representatives v. Burwell, a case challenging Cost-Sharing Reduction (“CSR”) payments to health insurance issuers under the Affordable Care Act (“ACA”) Section 1402. The district…