Physicians Sue Washington State Over Plan to Limit Medicaid Patients to Three Non-Emergency Visits Per Year

Share The Washington State Chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) is suing the state of Washington in an effort to overturn a new Medicaid policy that limits most low-income Medicaid patients to three non-emergency visits per year. The lawsuit was filed September 30, 2011; the AECP challenges legality of the state law that directed the state Health Care Authority (HCA) to develop a list non-emergency diagnoses that would be affected by the new limit and how HCA actually developed the list of non-emergency billing codes. The AECP claimed that the HCA failed to . . .