Medicaid beneficiaries with disabling and chronic conditions challenged North Carolina’s failure to ensure that managed care organizations provided them with adequate notice and opportunity for a hearing when their developmental disability services were reduced or terminated using arbitrary and non-ascertainable standards, denying beneficiaries a meaningful opportunity to challenge the benefit reductions or terminations.
In a formal complaint filed January 31, the National Health Law Program (NHeLP), the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), and Upturn urge the Federal…