Thirteen Medicaid enrollees, a pediatrician, and the Tennessee Justice Center are challenging the approval of the TennCare III project as a violation of the APA. The approval caps the amount of federal funding available to the State, continues Tennessee’s decades-long waiver of retroactive coverage, and permits the State to restrict coverage of medically necessary prescription drugs.
Tennessee challenged the federal Medicaid statute’s requirement to provide Medicaid coverage to refugees as unconstitutionally coercive. Our amicus brief…