Supreme Court of Texas

The Texas Health and Human Services Commission's (HHSC) data-collection method for calculating prospective Medicaid inpatient service rates is an invalid rule, and the Texas Supreme Court remands the rule to the agency to allow "reasonable time for the agency to either revise or readopt the rule through the established procedures."

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/15/2006
• Decided 08/31/2007
• Published 08/31/2007

Judges

• Justice MEDINA delivered the opinion of the Court.

Court

• Supreme Court of Texas

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Marie R. Yeates, Houston, Spikes Kangerga, Julie Plantes Woody, Vinson & Elkins L.L.P., James E. Gjerset, Lance James Ramsey, Shauna L. Lorenz, Gjerset & Lorenz, Austin, TX, for Petitioner., Ron Beal, pro se.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert L. Seibert, Office of Attorney General, Greg Abbott, Attorney General of Texas, Barry Ross McBee, Office of Atty. Gen., Edward D. Burbach, Office of Atty. Gen., Barbara Bryant Deane, Assistant Atty. Gen., Rafael Edward Cruz, Office of Atty. Gen., Rance L. Craft, Kristofer S. Monson, Assistant Solicitor Gen., Kent C. SullivanFirst Asst. Atty. Gen., and David S. Morales, Office of Atty. Gen., Austin, TX, for Respondents.