United Cerebral Palsy of Georgia, Inc. v. Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities

McFadden, Judge.

United Cerebral Palsy of Georgia, Inc. and others filed a putative class action lawsuit against the Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities, the Georgia Department of Community Health, and those agencies’ commissioners, alleging that the defendants erred in administering the state Medicaid program. The superior court granted the defendants’ motion to dismiss on the ground that the plaintiffs had not exhausted their administrative remedies. The plaintiffs appeal, arguing that they were excused from the exhaustion requirement because the defendants…