Maine Community Health Options v. United States

Decided April 27, 2020. Sonia Sotomayor delivered the opinion of the Court.

Docket 18-1023 · 590 U.S. ___ (2020)

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s now expired “Risk Corridors” statute—which set a formula for calculating payments to healthcare insurers for unexpectedly unprofitable plans during the first three years of online insurance marketplaces—created a Government obligation to pay insurers the full amount of their computed losses; and petitioners properly relied on the Tucker Act to sue for damages in the Court of Federal Claims.

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