Brandon Collins v. John Hamilton

How courts have described this case

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• holding that if a competent medical service provider determines that a specific type of care or service is medically necessary, state may not substitute a different service that it deems equivalent
• noting that federal regulations distinguish “between the acute care available in a psychiatric hospital setting and the less restrictive treatment provided by a residential facility”
• noting distinction “between the acute care available in a psychiatric hospital setting and the less restrictive treatment provided by a residential facility”
• “[A] state’s discretion to exclude services deemed ‘medically necessary’ by an EPSDT provider has been circumscribed by the express mandate of the statute.”
• Indiana’s denial of any funding for placement in psychiatric residential treatment facilities to children when deemed medically necessary by EPSDT screening violated Medicaid Act
• “[O]nce a state elects to participate [in Medicaid], it must abide by all federal requirements and standards set forth in the Act.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).