Insurers Face Tough Questions From Appeals Court On CSR Payments

Judges on a federal appeals court expressed concern Thursday (Jan. 9) that health insurers could receive an unjustified financial windfall if the insurers prevail in a series of lawsuits over the government’s failure to make payments under the Affordable Care Act’s cost-sharing reduction program. During oral arguments at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the judges seemed sympathetic to the federal government’s position that insurers have already been compensated for the missing CSR payments because, after the...