Legal Services of Southern Piedmont

Class Action Complaint in McCartney v. Dempsey 

McCartney v. Dempsey was filed in the Eastern District of North Carolina on April 7th, 2008. Devon McCartney, through his mother, Penny McCartney, is challenging the lack of basic due process protections for Medicaid recipients when their providers' requests for behavioral health and developmental disability services are denied, reduced, or terminated by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services or its agent, ValueOptions. The case was filed as a class action case and is now in mediation.

Click here to read the full complaint.