Azar v. Allina Health Services | |
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Argued January 15, 2019 Decided June 2, 2019 | |
Full case name | Alex M. Azar II, Secretary of Health and Human Services v. Allina Health Services et al. |
Docket no. | 17-1484 |
Citations | 587 U.S. ___ (more) 139 S. Ct. 1804 |
Argument | Oral argument |
Opinion announcement | Opinion announcement |
Case history | |
Prior | Allina Health Servs. v. Burwell, 201 F. Supp. 3d 94 (D.D.C. 2016); reversed sub nom., Allina Health Servs. v. Price, 863 F.3d 937 (D.C. Cir. 2017); cert. granted, 139 S. Ct. 51 (2018). |
Holding | |
Because the government has not identified a lawful excuse for neglecting its statutory notice-and-comment obligations, its policy must be vacated. | |
Court membership | |
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Case opinions | |
Majority | Gorsuch, joined by Roberts, Thomas, Ginsburg, Alito, Sotomayor, Kagan |
Dissent | Breyer |
Kavanaugh took no part in the consideration or decision of the case. |
Azar v. Allina Health Services, 587 U.S. ___ (2019), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held the Department of Health and Human Services' new policy to retroactively reduce Medicare payments must be vacated due to the department's failure to uphold its notice-and-comment obligations.[1]
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