Legal Opinion
Legacy Community Health Services, Inc. v. Smith
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided January 31, 2018No. 16-20691PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge:
Legacy Community Health Services (“Legacy”)—a Federally Qualified Health Center (“FQHC”)—sued the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (the “Commission”), through its Executive Commissioner, alleging that Texas’s reimbursement scheme violated the Medicaid Act (1) by requiring Managed Care Organizations (“MCOs”). fully to reimburse FQHCs, (2) by failing to ensure that Texas itself would reimburse an FQHC if an MCO does not reimburse the FQHC in the first place, and (3) by withholding payments for certain non-emergency services that Legacy has been providing…
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