January 12, 2023
The federal government must provide Medicaid funds to a Washington tribe that recently began offering dental services, the Ninth Circuit ruled Thursday, finding that a state law prohibiting non-Native people from going to tribal dentistry practices is not illegally discriminatory.
September 01, 2022
A Ninth Circuit panel on Thursday questioned whether the federal government can deny Medicaid funding for dental services to the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community in Washington because a state law bars nontribal Medicaid patients from accessing the tribal clinic.