Graus v. Kaladjian

OPINION AND ORDER

RAKOFF, District Judge.

Once the state confers Medicaid benefits on an eligible individual, it may not thereafter terminate such benefits because of subsequent loss of eligibility without affording the individual due process. But does the individual also have a right, enforceable under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, 1 to challenge the ways in which procedures and mechanisms that led to such termination violated Medicaid’s administrative rules? The answer, in terms of this case, is no.

Medicaid is a federally funded program of medical assistance for needy people that, in the case of New York…