Ninth Circuit Reverses Dismissal of San Carlos Apache Health Care Contract Support Costs Suit

Here is the opinion in San Carlos Apache Tribe v. Beccera.

An excerpt:

A simplified example clarifies this scheme. Assume that a tribe administers a $3 million healthcare program for its members. It costs the tribe $500,000 in administrative costs to do so. IHS therefore will pay the tribe $3.5 million. Additionally, the tribe recovers $1 million for those procedures from outside insurers. It is statutorily required to spend that $1 million on health care as well.
But there is a hole in this statutory scheme. Who pays the CSC for that additional $1 million in health care that the tribe must provide with its third-party revenue? At the heart of this lawsuit is Plaintiff-Appellant San Carlos Apache Tribe’s (“the Tribe”) contention that IHS must cover those additional CSC.

Briefs here.

This guy’s not Apache but he’s happy for them.

Ninth Circuit Briefs in San Carlos Apache Tribe v. Beccera

Here:

San Carlos Apache Opening Brief

Tribal Amicus Brief

US Answer Brief

Reply

Lower court materials here.

San Carlos Apache Contract Support Costs Suit Dismissed

Here are the materials in San Carlos Apache Tribe v. Azar (D. Ariz.):

1 Complaint

13 Motion to Dismiss

21 Response

22 Reply

23 DCT Order