Post-Chevron Legal Wrangling Could Impact Payers of all Stripes

Legal experts during a recent panel discussion said federal agencies and lawmakers have new uncertainty around health care regulation in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s decision to end a legal concept that gave agencies broad leeway when they issued rules.  

In its rulings in Relentless v. Department of Commerce and Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, the Supreme Court effectively repealed Chevron deference, a legal precedent that is more than 40 years old. The idea behind it is that agency staff have subject matter expertise that Congress is unlikely to share, and Congress couldn’t be expected to continually update statutes to address every emerging issue of importance to a specific sector of the economy.