Five Floridians with disabilities say state is violating their rights

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Daniel Gray has been in the Medicaid long term care program since 2017

Five Medicaid beneficiaries and their caregivers allege in a federal lawsuit that the DeSantis administration is allowing medical contractors to deny, reduce, or terminate care for Floridians with disabilities while ignoring legally mandated safeguards.

Filed in Tallahassee federal court by pro bono attorney Nancy Wright, Southern Legal Counsel, and Legal Services of Greater Miami, the complaint accuses the Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) of mismanaging a Medicaid program that provides home and community-based services to  p eople 18 and older and living with a disability, and 65 and older who qualify for nursing home care, with the goal of preventing them from being institutionalized…

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