Troutman v. Cohen

OPINION AND ORDER

VANARTSDALEN, District Judge.

I. Introduction

Plaintiffs in Civil Action 83-3534 filed a complaint on behalf of themselves and those similarly situated challenging the validity of the Pennsylvania Department of Welfare’s recently adopted amendments to the regulations regarding skilled nursing care under Title XIX of the Social Security Act (commonly called Medicaid), 42 U.S.C. § 1396-1396p. The gravamen of plaintiffs’ complaint is that the state’s new definition of skilled care is impermissibly stricter than that provided by federal law, thus resulting in the reduction in the…