Health Law Alert: Maxwell-Jolly: Supreme Court Considers Whether Supremacy Clause Can be Used to Challenge State Medicaid Rate Cuts
10/10/2011
The Supreme Court has just heard oral argument in a case that raises the issue of whether Medicaid providers and recipients can challenge state decisions to cut Medicaid rates. The court’s decision could have repercussions far beyond Medicaid rate-setting, as plaintiffs unhappy with any state decision begin searching for a federal statute that conflicts with, and therefore “preempts,” what the state has done.
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