NY Medicaid Gets Go-Ahead For Single Fiscal Intermediary Rule

New York can begin enforcing a new Medicaid provision requiring beneficiaries to hire home-care assistants through a single state-wide financial intermediary, rather than multiple community-based agencies, a federal court said.

Consumer plaintiffs who receive home-care services through the state’s Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program lacked standing to challenge the provision because they didn’t sufficiently allege that it will cause them direct and concrete injuries, the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York said Monday.

Existing fiscal intermediaries demonstrated standing, but didn’t show they had a right to sue under the laws they invoked, Judge Hector Gonzalez said. ...