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

Nahmias, Justice.

The plaintiffs in this case are providers and recipients of Medicaid services for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities who claim that the defendant administrative agencies and their commissioners failed to follow the required procedures before reducing the reimbursement rates paid to the providers and limiting the services available to the recipients. The plaintiffs did not submit their claims to the agencies for administrative review, instead filing this lawsuit in the trial court. The trial court granted the defendants’ motion to dismiss the case for…