Lutheran Services Florida, Inc. v. Department of Children & Families

SLEET, Judge.

Lutheran Services Florida,, Inc. (LSF), is the court-appointed guardian for the person and property of the ward Larry Perón. Mr. Perón resides in a nursing home facility as a beneficiary of the Medicaid Institutional Care Program (ICP). As part of that program, Mr. Perón pays a portion of his income to the facility as his patient responsibility payment and Medicaid ICP pays the balance of the cost of his care. In this administrative appeal, LSF challenges the final order of the Department of Children and Families Office of Appeal Hearings affirming the Department’s denial of…