Indiana State Department of Welfare v. Stagner

YOUNG, Presiding Judge.

The Indiana State Department of Welfare, Medicaid Division, appeals the issuance of a preliminary injunction ordering the payment of $100,000.00 to Harold Stag-ner, a qualified provider to Medicaid patients of speech and hearing therapy, pending the resolution of Stagner's underlying suit to recover payment for unreimbursed Medicaid claims. In this interlocutory appeal, the Department asserts several issues for our review, the dispositive issue being whether the trial court erred in taking jurisdiction and granting preliminary injunc-tive relief before exhaustion of…