CITY OF HAPEVILLE Et Al. v. GRADY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION

DOYLE, Chief Judge.

In City of Hapeville v. Grady Mem. Hosp. Corp., 1 this Court considered whether OCGA § 42-5-2 constituted a statutory waiver of municipal immunity in cases in which a health care provider seeks compensation from a municipality for medical services rendered by the provider to an inmate in the municipality’s custody at the time of service.

As we explained in that opinion,

[this] Court in Macon-Bibb County [Hosp. Auth. v. Houston County, 2 ] determined that the Legislature’s enactment of OCGA § 42-5-2 containing the requirement that a county or the Department of Corrections…