HAYNES AMBULANCE SERVICE v. STATE OF ALA.

Civ. A. No. 92-H-879-N.

820 F.Supp. 590 (1993)

HAYNES AMBULANCE SERVICE, INC., a corporation; City Ambulance of Alabama, Inc., a corporation; Med Star Ambulance Service, Inc., a corporation; Suburban Ambulance Service, Inc., a corporation; Suburban Emergency Service, Inc., a corporation; Hank's Ambulance Service, Inc., a corporation; A & A Ambulance Service, Inc., a corporation; Regional Paramedical Service, a corporation; Newman's Medical Service, a corporation; and Community Ambulance Service, Inc., a corporation, individually and for and on behalf of a class of persons or entities providing services to recipients of Medicare and Medicaid benefits as is more particularly referred to in this complaint, Plaintiffs, v. STATE OF ALABAMA; Guy Hunt as Governor of the State of Alabama; Alabama Medicaid Agency, an agency of the State of Alabama; Carol Merrman, as the Commissioner of the Alabama Medicaid Agency; and Donna E. Shalala as the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, an agency of the United States of America, Defendants.

United States District Court, M.D. Alabama, N.D.

April 16, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack G. Paden, Bessemer, AL, and Thomas C. Najjar, Jr. and Jesse P. Evans III, firm of Najjar Denaburg, Birmingham, AL, for plaintiffs.

Stuart M. Gerson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Washington, DC, James Eldon Wilson, U.S. Atty., Kenneth E. Vines, Asst. U.S. Atty., Montgomery, AL (David Smith, Office of Gen. Counsel, Dept. of Health and Human Services, Sheila M. Lieber, Pleadings signed by Peter D. Coffman, Attys., Dept. of Justice Civ. Div., Federal Programs, Washington, DC of counsel), for Shalala as Secretary of Dept. of Health and Human Services.

Graddick & Belser, David E. Belser and Charles A. Graddick, Montgomery, AL, for State of AL and Guy Hunt.

William O. Butler, III, AL Medicaid Agency, Montgomery, AL, for AL Medicaid Agency and Herrman, as Com'n.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

HOBBS, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

Plaintiffs, owners and operators of ambulance services,1 are providers to Medicare and Medicaid recipients in the state of Alabama. Plaintiffs have challenged a regulation of the Alabama Medicaid Agency, which plaintiffs contend illegally restricts the amount of recovery to plaintiffs for services which they provide...

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