Judge Grants Stay on TennCare Benefits Restoration

February 3, 2003 Judge Grants Stay on TennCare Benefits Restoration The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati granted on January 2, 2003, an emergency stay of a lower court order that called for the state to immediately re-enroll up to 200,000 people who had been deemed ineligible for TennCare since July 1, 2002. The re-enrollment was estimated to cost the state $300 million this fiscal year. The court began hearings on the state’s motion for a permanent stay on January 8, 2003. The lower court ruling effectively halted the implementation of the new . . .