Department of Medical Assistance Services v. Beverly Healthcare

CLEMENTS, Judge.

This appeal arises from an order of the Circuit Court of Spotsylvania County (circuit court) reversing the ruling of the Director of the Department of Medical Assistance Services (DMAS) that, pursuant to 12 VAC 30-90-20(C), the appellees, eight nursing home facilities in Virginia that disputed DMAS’s calculation of their Medicaid reimbursement payments, were not entitled, for the years at issue, to reimbursement for their Medicaid-related expenses under the higher cost ceiling applicable to Northern Virginia. In reversing the DMAS Director’s ruling, the circuit court concluded…