April 2, 2015 — Dentists and other private healthcare providers cannot sue to force states to raise their Medicare reimbursement rates, according to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling issued on March 31.
This ruling means that dentists and other healthcare providers will have to find a nonjudiciary route to raise reimbursement levels.
In the case Armstrong v. Exceptional Child Center, Justice Antonin Scalia, writing for the majority, overturned a lower court decision and rejected the argument that the “Supremacy Clause” of the U.S. Constitution allowed these lawsuits to continue.
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