Reiff v. Colorado Department of Health Care Policy & Financing

Opinion by

Judge MÁRQUEZ.

Plaintiff, Carol Reiff, appeals the district court’s order affirming the final agency decision of the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing (the department), terminating her Medicaid Home- and Community-Based Services for the Elderly, Blind, and Disabled (HCBS) benefits. We reverse and remand for further proceedings.

Reiff is a sixty-four-year-old Colorado resident who has proteinuria, lupus, autoimmune hemolytic anemia, avascular necrosis of bilateral hips resulting in bilateral hip replacements, chronic anemia, chronic dementia, Raynaud’s disease,…