Ball Healthcare-Jefferson, Inc. v. Alabama Medicaid Agency

PITTMAN, Judge.

This appeal concerns the methodology used to calculate the per diem reimbursement allowance to nursing-home operators for services provided to patients who are eligible for benefits under the Medicaid program (established by Title XIX of the Social Security Act, see generally 42 U.S.C. § 1396 et seq.). As wé noted in Hartford Healthcare, Inc. v. Williams, 751 So.2d 16, 19 (Ala.Civ.App.1999), the Alabama Medicaid Agency (“the Agency”) has adopted a cost-reimbursement system that “implements an advance-payment plan” based upon “allowable costs for nursing homes [that] are…