Bates v. Berger

In a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 by the Commissioner of Social Services of the County of Westchester to review a determination of the New York State Commissioner of Social Services, dated April 15, 1975 and made after a statutory fair hearing, which reversed petitioner’s determination not to make payment of a bill rendered to the local department for services of a "rehabilitation attendant” (the reason given for refusal was that the services did not conform to the State medical handbook guidelines for the administration of the New York Medicaid program pursuant to the authority of…