Five Floridians with disabilities say state is violating their rights

Five Medicaid beneficiaries and their caregivers allege in a federal lawsuit that the DeSantis administration is allowing medical contractors to deny, reduce, or terminate care for Floridians with disabilities while ignoring legally mandated safeguards. The plaintiffs range in age from 22 to 84 and contend the managed care plans erroneously reduced or denied services to which they were entitled. “AHCA’s failures in the administration of the LTC [long-term care] Waiver are working directly against the very purpose of the program: to provide adults with disabilities with the care that they need to stay in the community and avoid institutionalization,” attorneys for the plaintiffs wrote.