The Supreme Court agrees to hear an appeal from health insurance companies who say the federal government owes them $12 billion from losses sustained under Obamacare
The cases involve one of the Affordable Care Act's three risk mitigation programs that were designed to shield insurers from losses, giving them a greater incentive to participate when the individual exchanges opened in 2014. Under the risk corridor program, which was designed to last only three years, insurers whose premiums exceeded consumers' claims paid into the fund, while their peers who didn't charge enough high enough rates could draw from it.
So insurers only received a fraction of the risk corridor payments they requested because the amount far exceeded what was contributed. That huge shortfall forced some smaller insurers to shut their doors and prompted some others to stop offering coverage on the exchanges. Read MoreInsurers sued the Department of Health and Human Services, saying they were owed more than $12 billion in payments.
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