Federal appeals court greenlights CSR lawsuit settlement

Modern Healthcare: The inter-branch battle over cost-sharing reduction payments took one big step toward closure Wednesday as a federal appeals court dismissed the U.S. House of Representatives' lawsuit against HHS.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit dismissed the appeal lodged by the Obama administration after the House led by former GOP House Speaker John Boehner won an initial claim that HHS did not have the authority to pay out CSRs to insurers in the Obamacare exchanges without an appropriation from Congress.

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