Arizona Alliance For Community Health Centers v. Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System

• Court: District Court, D. Arizona
• Decided: April 11, 2023
• Docket: 4:19-cv-00517
• Status: Unknown

Opinion

1 WO 2 3 4 5 6 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 7 FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA

9 Arizona Alliance For Community Health Centers, et al., 10 Plaintiffs, 11 No. CV-19-00517-TUC-JGZ v. 12 ORDER Arizona Health Care Cost Containment 13 System, et al.,

14 Defendants. 15 16 Upon receiving the Ninth Circuit’s mandate on December 1, 2022, (Doc. 84), and 17 upon considering its September 2, 2022 opinion, (Doc. 80), which held in relevant part: 18 [T]he Medicaid Act [establishes] that “FQHC services” are a mandatory benefit that Defendants must cover and for which Plaintiffs have a right to 19 reimbursement under § 1396a(bb) that is enforceable under § 1983. 20 (Id. at 14); 21 Douglas held that the mandatory benefit of “FQHC services” under § 1396d(a)(2)(C) includes services furnished by chiropractors, dentists, 22 optometrists, and podiatrists. 23 (Id. at 17 (citing Cal. Ass’n of Rural Health Clinics v. Douglas, 738 F.3d 1007 (9th Cir. 24 2013)); 25 Arizona’s categorical exclusion of all adult chiropractic services violates the 26 unambiguous text of § 1396d(a)(2) of the Medicaid Act, which Douglas interpreted as including “services furnished by . . . chiropractors.” 27 28 (Id. at 18); 1 IT IS HEREBY ORDERED: Defendants Arizona Health Care Cost Containment 2|| System (AHCCCS) and Carmen Heredia, in her official capacity, are permanently enjoined || from enacting or applying a “categorical exclusion of all adult chiropractic services” from 4|| AHCCCS’s coverage of the “Federally-qualified health center services” mandatory 5 || benefit, which “Defendants must cover and for which Plaintiffs have a right to 6|| reimbursement under § 1396a(bb).” 7 Dated this 10th day of April, 2023. 8 ? * 10 pote Soipe ; Honorable Jennife □□□□□ United States District Judge 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28

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