The state of Florida has agreed to spend up to $27 million to settle a class action lawsuit brought by Medicaid recipients who argue they were forced into nursing homes.
The lawsuit was filed in early 2008 on behalf of approximately 8,500 elderly and disabled Medicaid recipients who allege that Florida’s Medicaid program made it prohibitively difficult to obtain funding for home- and community-based care. By doing so, they argued, Medicaid essentially coerced them into nursing homes…..
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Floridians Forced Into Nursing Homes Earn Settlement at PHInational.org
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