Administration Calls Claims Over Risk Corridor Payments Unripe

The Obama administration has finally shown how it intends to respond to the growing number of lawsuits over the Affordable Care Act’s risk corridor funding gap. In a June 24 motion to dismiss the first case filed in the dispute, the U.S. Department of Justice contends that the since the risk corridor program is slated to last three years, and calculations and payments have only been made for 2014, the suit brought by Oregon’s Health Republic Insurance Company is premature...