Wade v. Tennessee Department of Finance & Administration

OPINION

FRANK G. CLEMENT, JR., P.J., M.S., and W. NEAL McBRAYER, J., joined.

Appellant TennCare enrollee has been receiving 24/7 care from a private duty nurse in the home of his grandparents in Martin, Tennessee. TennCare determined that he could receive adequate care for less cost in a special respiratory care unit in St. Francis Hospital in Memphis. En-rollee, through his grandparents as his co-conservators, filed an administrative appeal. The administrative law judge agreed with TennCare. Appellants appealed that decision to chancery court, which reversed the administrative law judge’s…