Supreme Court of the United States Ruling In Armstrong v. Execptional Child Center, Inc.

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 Exceptional Child Center, et al. v. Armstrong, et al., which was filed in December 2009 by five residential habilitation provider organizations. The issue before the Supreme Court was whether the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution gave Medicaid provider organizations a private right of action to sue states to prevent Medicaid reimbursement cuts. The 5-4 decision reversed a lower court’s . . .