New York Ass'n of Homes & Services for the Aging, Inc. v. Commissioner of New York State Department of Health

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court (Williams, J.), entered September 30, 1992 in Albany County, which granted petitioner’s application, in a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78, to, inter alia, annul the 1989 to 1991 Medicaid reimbursement rates for petitioner’s members.

This proceeding has its genesis in the adoption by the Department of Health (hereinafter DOH) of a new method in 1986 for determining nursing home Medicaid reimbursement rates, which was designed, in part, to produce rates that reflect relative resource needs of patients. One component of the new reimbursement rate…