Iowa Updates CoOportunity Suit With New RA, Risk Corridor Arguments

Iowa Insurance Commissioner Nick Gerhart on Tuesday (July 26) added more grievances against the federal government in an amended complaint for Gerhart v. HHS , echoing others who are suing HHS over the three risk mitigation programs by newly calling the risk adjustment methodology “arbitrary, capricious and an abuse of discretion." CoOportunity Health, the former consumer-operated and -oriented plan in Nebraska and Iowa that is the focus of Gerhart's lawsuit, was charged $22 million under the risk adjustment program for...