Medicaid Redetermination Class Action
ABOUT THE CASE
On September 25, 2025, Brown, Goldstein & Levy, LLP filed a class action lawsuit against the Maryland Department of Health (“MDH”), the State of Maryland, and MDH Secretary Meena Seshamani in her official capacity (collectively “Defendants”), on behalf of Ursula Battle, Constance Farrell, Frank Lee, Yolanda Puzzo (“Named Plaintiffs”), and others similarly situated, as well as The Arc Montgomery County, Inc., a service provider for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (“IDD”).
The lawsuit alleges that Defendants have arbitrarily and unlawfully disenrolled hundreds of Marylanders from Medicaid and “waiver programs” administered by MDH’s Developmental Disabilities Administration that are designed to serve people with IDD. Plaintiffs allege that Defendants’ process for confirming continued Medicaid and waiver eligibility— known as “redetermination”—is fundamentally broken and violates due process resulting in people with IDD losing benefits and services without notice, without a chance to be heard, and without a meaningful explanation from Defendants about the reason(s) for their decisions. Named Plaintiffs seek relief under the federal and state constitutions, the Medicaid Act, and Maryland common law.
More than 18,000 Marylanders with IDD rely on DDA-administered waiver programs for health benefits and for services and supports that enable them to live safely and with dignity in their communities. Because all Medicaid and waiver participants must have their eligibility redetermined annually, Defendants’ broken redetermination process puts all waiver participants at risk of being erroneously disenrolled and of losing vital benefits and supports. Plaintiffs ask that Defendants be ordered to reinstate them and all other people with IDD who have had their Medicaid benefits terminated since May 2023, and to fix the systemic deficiencies in their redetermination process going forward.
The Arc Montgomery County alleges that MDH has failed to reimburse it for services that it has provided to people whose Medicaid benefits have been unlawfully terminated. The Arc seeks payment of more than $9 million.
The case is pending before the United States District Court in Greenbelt and is captioned, Battle, et al. v. Maryland Department of Health, et al., Case No. 8:25-cv-03495-DLB.
we want to hear your story
Have you or a loved one been erroneously disenrolled from Medicaid or a DDA waiver program? Please fill out the form linked here.
Are you a provider organization that serves as the authorized representative for a waiver participant who has been erroneously disenrolled? Has MDH failed to reimburse you for services you have provided to people with IDD? Please fill out the form linked here.
For more information about the progress of the case, please see the documents below:
- Complaint (filed September 25, 2025, in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County and removed by Defendants to the United States District Court for the District of Maryland on October 24, 2025). Battle-et-al.-v.-Maryland-Department-of-Health-et-al.pdf
- Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss (filed October 31, 2025). 008-01 – Memorandum in Support.pdf
- Plaintiffs’ Opposition to Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss (filed November 21, 2025). 013 – 2025-11-21 – Plaintiffs Opposition to MTD.pdf
- Defendants’ Reply in Support of Motion to Dismiss (filed December 19, 2025). 016 – 2025-12-19 – Defendants’ Reply in Support of MTD.pdf