K.B. v. Michigan D.H.H.S., Eastern District of Michigan

Executive Summary

A class of Medicaid-eligible children with intensive mental health care needs who are at risk of avoidable psychiatric hospitalizations or commitment to the juvenile delinquency system sued the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services for failing to provide needed mental health services in the community as required by the Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic and Treatment and the Americans with Disabilities Act.