Insurers Due Full Amount of Obamacare Cost-Sharing Pay: Brief

The federal government must pay health insurers the full amount of Obamacare cost-sharing payments they would have received had the government not unlawfully refused to make them, insurers trying to recoup billions in lost payments told a federal appeals court.

Community Health Choice Inc. and Maine Community Health Options urged the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit March 13 to disregard government arguments that the court should limit their damages if it affirms judgments in their favor.

Government lawyers argued that the insurers’ use of a practice called “silver loading,” in which they were allowed to increase premiums ...