United States Supreme Court
Arkansas Dep't of Health & Human Servs. v. Ahlborn, 04-1506
Federal Medicaid law does not authorize a state's department of health services to assert a lien on a settlement in an amount exceeding the portion of the tort claimant's settlement constituting reimbursement for medical payments made, and a federal anti-lien provision affirmatively prohibits it from doing so. State third-party liability provisions are unenforceable insofar as they compel a different conclusion.
Appellate Information
- Decided 05/01/2006
- Published 05/01/2006
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- United States Supreme Court