Price v. Medicaid Director

ORDER

Karen L. Litkovitz, United States Magistrate Judge

I. INTRODUCTION

The State of Ohio’s Medicaid assisted living waiver program pays for home and community-based services provided to qualified low income, elderly individuals who otherwise would require care in an institutional or nursing home environment. The named plaintiffs in this case, Betty Hilleger and Geraldine A. Saunders,1 applied for assisted living waiver benefits under the Ohio program. Both were found eligible for assisted living waiver benefits. However, they were denied retroactive assisted living waiver benefits because Ohio…