Michigan Hospital Ass'n v. Department of Social Services

OPINION

ENSLEN, District Judge.

This matter is before the Court on the federal defendants’ motion to dismiss. In this action the Michigan Hospital Association (“MHA”) and a number of individual hospitals (collectively, “plaintiffs”), challenge the hospital reimbursement rates set by the State under the Medicaid program pursuant to Title XIX of the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1396, et seq. Plaintiffs bring their claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (“section 1983 or § 1983”), the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and various Michigan statutes and constitutional provisions.…