Rosie D., et al. v. Patrick Deval, et al.

July 2007 The lawsuit, filed in 2002 as Rosie D. v. Romney, alleged that the state failed to provide home-and community-based services for children with serious emotional disturbances (SED). A key complaint was the states failure to provide Early Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment (EPSDT) services, which are a provision of the Medicaid Act. The lawsuit was filed in 2002, but was not heard until 2005. In January 2006, the judge in the case, (renamed Rosie D., et al. v. Patrick Deval et al.) ruled that the state must provide home-and community-based services for the states . . .