Class Action Status & Preliminary Injunction Granted For Lawsuit Protesting Idaho Medicaid Change To Individual DD Service Budgets

On March 25, 2014, a federal district court judge approved class action status for two consolidated lawsuits filed in 2012 on behalf of nearly 3,600 adult participants in the Idaho Medicaid Developmental Disability (DD) Waiver program protesting changes in 2011 to the state’s method of setting DD service budgets. During the pending legal action, the state is prevented from reducing or terminating DD services to any DD waiver participants below the level “as provided in the Individual Support Plans (ISP) in place for each class member prior to July 1, 2011." The plaintiffs are challenging the legality of . . .