Esteban v. Cook’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “once the State voluntarily elects to provide wheelchairs to eligible Medicaid re cipients, it must provide wheelchairs that are sufficient in amount, duration and scope to achieve their purpose. Providing manual wheelchairs to eligible Medicaid recipients with severe mobility-impairments is not sufficient to achieve the State’s purpose. [T]he State’s limitation of coverage for the parties in this action seeking customized or motorized wheelchairs with severe mobility impairments is not sufficient in amount, duration and scope to achieve their purpose.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 897 F. Supp. 2d 528 - Koenning v. Suehs

2. “The Medicaid Act, Title XIX of the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1396 , is a cooperative federal-state program designed to allow states to receive matching funds from the federal government to finance necessary services to qualified low-income individuals.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 965 So. 2d 154 - Courts v. Agency for Health Care Admin.