Federal District Court Vacates Part of CMS’s ACA Risk Adjustment Methodology

Federal District Court Vacates Part of CMS’s ACA Risk Adjustment Methodology

March 6, 2018, Covington Alert

Last week, in New Mexico Health Connections v. United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), No. 16-cv-0878 (D.N.M.), the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico granted summary judgment for plaintiff-New Mexico Health Connections (NMHC) in a case challenging the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) methodology implementing the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) Risk Adjustment Program.