Jennings Ex Rel. Jennings v. Alexander

MEMORANDUM

MORTON, Chief Judge.

The plaintiffs in this case, all recipients of Medicaid benefits in Tennessee, seek to permanently enjoin the state’s proposed reduction in Medicaid coverage for inpatient hospital care from the current limit of 20 days per year to a proposed maximum of 14 days per year. Although the complaint originally challenged a comprehensive array of proposed changes, and as recently as the March 13, 1981, bench trial also challenged various changes in the Medicaid drug formulary, the parties have now reached agreed settlements on all issues except the reduction in…