On January 26, 2018, Judge Leonard D. Wexler granted statewide class certification and concluded that Medicaid-related Fair Hearing Decisions, which contain open-ended remands to a local agency, violate an appellant's right to a timely decision. Judgment, which was finally entered on February 1,...

Based on the redacted decisions available on OTDA's Fair Hearing Decision Archive, the numbers of monthly and annual Fair Hearing Decisions continue to decline for the third straight year. In 2014, OTDA issued a record-breaking 117,605 Fair Hearing Decisions. In 2017, the number of decisions...