Medicaid providers and former union members lost a suit to stop California from deducting union dues from their paychecks because the Medicaid Act’s anti-reassignment provision doesn’t give them a right to sue, the Ninth Circuit said Wednesday.
The provision, which prohibits states from making payments for services to anyone other than a Medicaid provider or recipient wasn’t intended to benefit providers and, therefore, doesn’t confer a private right of action on them, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said in two cases consolidated on appeal.
The text and legislative history of the anti-reassignment provision make clear that ...