Alabama Medicaid Agency v. Peoples
Citation | 549 So.2d 504 |
Parties | Medicare & Medicaid Guide P 38,015 ALABAMA MEDICAID AGENCY v. Arnie A. PEOPLES. Civ. 6842. |
Decision Date | 17 May 1989 |
Court | Alabama Court of Civil Appeals |
Don Siegelman, Atty. Gen., and Charles H. Durhan III, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellant.
R. Wyatt Howell of Potts & Young, Florence, for appellee.
This case arose after the commissioner of the Alabama Medicaid Agency concurred with the hearing officer's recommendation to declare Arnie A. Peoples ineligible for Medicaid benefits for the month of July 1987. Peoples sought judicial review of this decision in the Circuit Court of Marion County pursuant to the administrative procedure act. The circuit court, after an ore tenus proceeding, set aside the commissioner's determination and declared that the applicant was eligible for Medicaid benefits. The court's order reads, in pertinent part, as follows:
"[U]pon consideration of the [pleadings and stipulations of the parties], it is ordered, adjudged and decreed that the defendant Alabama Medicaid Agency has not acted in accordance with pertinent agency rules, or alternatively has committed errors of law, or alternatively reached a clearly erroneous decision in view of the reliable, probative, and substantial evidence on the whole record, or alternatively reached an unreasonable, arbitrary or capricious decision, and it is further ordered, adjudged and decreed that plaintiff Arnie A. Peoples was eligible for benefits for the month of July 1988."
The agency appeals, contending, in part, that the trial court's order should be reversed and remanded for its failure to list in writing its reasons for reversing the agency's final decision as required by the Alabama Administrative Procedure Act, § 41-22-20(l ), Ala.Code 1975 (1982 Repl.Vol.). This section requires the court to set out in writing the reasons for its findings when it reverses a decision of the agency.
Peoples submits that the trial court's order clearly parallels the language of § 41-22-20(k) and thus satisfies the spirit of § 41-22-20(l ). The language in § 41-22-20(k) is set forth as follows:
We are satisfied that the circuit court's failure to state reasons for its reversal of the commissioner's determination of ineligibility requires reversal here and that the case be remanded to the circuit court.
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