Budnicki v. Beal

ADJUDICATION

JOSEPH S. LORD, III, Chief Judge.

This class action challenges a reduction in the availability of orthopedic shoes and shoe accessories under the Pennsylvania Medical Assistance Program. Plaintiffs seek to enjoin the elimination of these benefits on the grounds that the cutbacks violate federal statutory and regulatory requirements under the Medical Assistance Program (“Medicaid”), 42 U.S.C. § 1396 et seq., and the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. A final hearing was held on the request for an injunction, from which I make the…