Officials:  Second Class Certification Motion In Medicaid Waiver Suit Untimely

Mealey's (March 13, 2020, 10:17 AM EDT) -- TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida officials named as defendants in a class action lawsuit brought by five disabled individuals who claim the they are eligible for home and community-based services under the state’s limited-enrollment Medicaid waiver program but are currently waitlisted and thus at risk of being institutionalized say in a March 9 brief filed in federal court in Florida that the plaintiffs’ second motion for class certification should be denied because it is untimely and because they have changed the class definition without filing an amended complaint (Benjamin Alexander, et al. v. Mary Mahew, et al., No. 18-569, N.D. Fla.)....