Local mother wins a legal victory for all parents battling state cuts in medical care for their children
OnlineAthens.com
DANIELSVILLE - Until recently, Pam Moore dreaded the daily trip to the mailbox.
Any envelope containing a state Department of Community Health logo made her heart sink, Moore said, because it likely meant Georgia Medicaid once again denied treatments that physicians ordered for her now 13-year-old daughter,Callie.
Moore finally won her personal battle with the state agency June 3 when U.S. District Judge Thomas W. Thrash ruled that the state does not have the discretion to deny funding for services prescribed by a treating physician. Under the Medicaid Act, Thrash said, the state is required to provide certain types of care to eligible children, including early and periodic screening, and diagnostic and treatment services.
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