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The June 28 Supreme Court decision to overturn the 40-year-old decision in Chevron U.S.A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council Inc., known as the Chevron deference standard, has huge implications for health care and our profession. Here’s an information roundup, which we’ll continue to update as new insights emerge.

Background: The Chevron deference standard was a central and longstanding administrative law principle that deferred to federal agencies’ technical expertise in interpreting laws and subsequently issuing the regulations needed to act on them.

The June 28 decision, Loper Bright Enterprises et al. v. Raimondo, overruled this core doctrine, which not only impacts the relationship between future legislation and regulations but calls into question the legal validity of existing regulations. The decision also upends the balance of power between the three branches of government, shifting significant authority previously held by federal agencies and their specialized staff to the federal judiciary.

The ruling means that judges will be relied upon to make technical and even scientific determinations rather than rely on the expertise of agency staff. As a result, congressional lawmakers may now have mounting pressure to craft legislation much more prescriptively to avoid ambiguity that would be addressed by the courts.

APTA is providing a roundup of news related to this significant legal decision, which is likely to shake up the health care regulatory landscape for some time.

General Overviews

Analyses of Impact on Health Care Regulation


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