Martin v. Ohio Department of Human Services

Brogan, Judge.

Appellant, the Ohio Department of Human Services (“ODHS”), appeals from a judgment of the Champaign County Court of Common Pleas reversing an administrative determination that appellee, Richard Martin, was ineligible for Medicaid benefits. The common pleas court held that an IRA owned by appellee’s spouse should not have counted in the determination of appellee’s eligibility for nursing-home Medicaid benefits. The lower court also held that ODHS erred in retroactively applying a regulation that related to eligibility calculations. On appeal from that judgment, we hold that a…