The Justice Department filed a lawsuit in 2013, after conducting an investigation that concluded the Florida Medicaid program was unnecessarily institutionalizing children in nursing homes. The state vehemently fought the allegations and the lawsuit, with the U.S. Supreme Court last year declining to take up a state appeal aimed at preventing the case from moving forward. TALLAHASSEE — After a decade-long legal fight, a federal judge Friday ordered Florida to make changes to keep children with “complex” medical conditions out of nursing homes and help them receive care in their family homes or communities.
U.S. District Judge Donald Middlebrooks, siding […]
Click here to visit source. news.wgcu.org
See also U.S. Veteran Affairs Secretary talks veteran benefits in Albert Lea Monday
Powered by Inline Related Posts