Azar v. Allina Health Services

Azar v. Allina Health Services
Supreme Court of the United States
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
Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices Clarence Thomas · Ruth Bader Ginsburg Stephen Breyer · Samuel Alito Sonia Sotomayor · Elena Kagan Neil Gorsuch · Brett Kavanaugh
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]