On July 30, 2018, two insurers – Moda Health Plan, Inc. (“Moda”) and Land of Lincoln Mutual Health Insurance Company – petitioned the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to reconsider the Court’s June 14, 2018 ruling in which the Court held that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) is not responsible for making past-due “risk corridor payments” to insurance companies as required by Section 1342 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“ACA”) (the “June Ruling”).
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