Schmidt v. Apple Valley Health Care Center, Inc.

OPINION

DAVIES, Judge.

Apple Valley Health Care Center challenges the trial court’s determination that it is liable to a class of plaintiffs for failing to retroactively equalize rates paid by private paying residents to those paid by the state on behalf of medical assistance recipients. We affirm.

FACTS

Appellant Apple Valley Health Care Center opened on June 29, 1983. It participated in medical assistance programs in which the state reimbursed the home for residents who received public assistance. The state required appellant, as a new nursing home, to set interim rates to use in reimbursing…