Lawsuit Filed Over Idaho IDD Provider Rate-Setting & Reimbursement Methodology

OPEN MINDS Weekly News Wire Intellectual & Developmental Disability Services In November 2009, a group of 16 organizations that provide residential developmental disability support services in Idaho amended their complaint in their lawsuit Affiliates, Inc., et al., v. Armstrong and Clement to add allegations related to existing rates for affiliation services. The amended complaint seeks to force the state to use a consistent methodology in setting provider reimbursement rates. The plaintiffs say the most recent methodology listed in the state plan and federal documents is from 1995; as a result, the plaintiffs said rate and reimbursement changes since 1995 that . . .