Glover v. Glendening

ELDRIDGE, Judge.

This action for declaratory and injunctive relief against several Maryland officials was brought under the Maryland/federal medicaid program and the federal Medicaid Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1396 et seq. 1 The federal Medicaid Act, in 42 U.S.C. §§ 1396a(25), 1396a(45) and 1396k, provides for the assignment, by medicaid recipients to the State, of any rights which the medicaid recipients may have against third parties to recover for the medical care which the State paid for under the medicaid program. These sections go on to provide that the State shall take all reasonable measures to…