Update – as of 7:15pm, we still don’t have a ruling. They have been in the hearing since 1pm.

Some of you have been raising concerns for the past year about the PASSE model, and just days before it is set to begin, a lawsuit has been filed with a ruling that should happen on Wednesday.

The lawsuit has been filed to stop the transition to managed care, set to start this coming Friday, that will change the way services are covered for over 40,000 Arkansans who have significant mental illness or developmental disabilities.  

The lawsuit says DHS has refused to do anything about the warnings that the 3 managed care companies planning to participate in the program won’t be ready to take over responsibility for the recipients care March 1.  

Many of those affected have said that care coordinators aren’t trained well among many other worries. Providers say they won’t be able to bill starting March 1.

Click below to read the actual lawsuit.