Boise Group Homes, Inc. v. Idaho Department of Health & Welfare

TROUT, Justice.

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BACKGROUND AND PRIOR PROCEEDINGS

Boise Group Homes (BGH) is a health care provider which contracts with the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare (the Department) to provide medical services to Idaho citizens. The Department administers the Medicaid program in Idaho which includes reimbursing health care providers such as BGH for approved costs of services to patients.

In 1986 as in prior years, BGH submitted a statement to the Department seeking reimbursement for the costs of a consultant to provide psychological services to its Medicaid patients. At that time, the allowable…