Supreme Court Rules Provider Organizations Lack Standing To Sue Medicaid Over Rates

On March 31, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Medicaid provider organizations do not have the right to challenge state Medicaid reimbursement rate development and adequacy. The ruling came in the State of Idaho’s appeal to Armstrong, et al., v. Exceptional Child Center, et al., which was filed in December 2009 by five residential habilitation provider organizations: Exceptional Child Center, Inc.; Inclusion, Inc.; Tomorrow’s Hope Satellite Services, Inc.; Wdb, Inc.; and Living Independently For Everyone, Inc. The issue before the Supreme Court was whether the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution gave Medicaid provider organizations a private . . .