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GALLARDO v. MARSTILLER 

Opinion of the Court 

permits additional recovery.

We  disagree.  Under  §1396k(a)(1)(A),  Florida  may  seek 
reimbursement  from  settlement  amounts  representing 
“payment for medical care,” past or future.  Thus, because 
Florida’s assignment statute “is expressly authorized by the
terms  of  . . .  [§]1396k(a),”  it  falls  squarely  within  the  “ex-
ception to the anti-lien provision” that this Court has rec-
ognized.  Ahlborn, 547 U. S., at 284. 

A 

The plain text of §1396k(a)(1)(A) decides this case.  This 
provision requires the State to acquire from each Medicaid
beneficiary an assignment of “any rights . . . of the individ-
ual  . . .  to  support  . . .  for  the  purpose  of  medical  care  . . . 
and  to  payment  for  medical  care  from  any  third  party.” 
§1396k(a)(1)(A).  Nothing in this provision purports to limit 
a beneficiary’s assignment to “payment for” past “medical 
care”  already  paid  for  by  Medicaid.    To  the  contrary,  the 
grant of “any rights . . . to payment for medical care” most
naturally covers not only rights to payment for past medical 
expenses, but also rights to payment for future medical ex-
penses.  Ibid. (emphasis added); see United States v. Gon-
zales, 520 U. S. 1, 5 (1997) (“[T]he word ‘any’ has an expan-
sive meaning”).  The relevant distinction is thus “between 
medical and nonmedical expenses,” Wos, 568 U. S., at 641, 
not  between  past  expenses  Medicaid  has  paid  and  future 
expenses it has not. 

Statutory context reinforces that §1396k(a)(1)(A)’s refer-
ence  to  “payment  for  medical  care”  is  not  limited  as  Gal-
lardo suggests.  First, when §1396k(a)(1)(A) limits the kind 
of “support” (e.g., child support) covered by a beneficiary’s
assignment,  the  statute  does  not  single  out  support  allo-
cated for past expenses that a State has already paid.  In-
stead, it requires only that support payments be “specified 
as  support  for  the  purpose  of  medical  care”  generally.