Bell Telephone Co. of Pennsylvania v. Reuben H. Donnelley Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• finding that Pennsylvania's provision of coverage for eyeglasses based on cause of disability and not medical necessity violated Medicaid Act
• invalidating Pennsylvania plan providing eyeglasses to Medicaid recipients suffering eye disease but not those suffering non-pathologieal eye conditions
• finding statute was illegal when it covered eyeglasses for those suffering from eye diseases but did not cover glasses for patients when refractive error caused poor eyesight
• finding statute was illegal when it covered eyeglasses for those suffering from eye diseases but did not cover glasses for patients when refractive error caused poor eyesight
• Pennsylvania Medicaid regulation that extends vision benefit to patients with eye pathology, but not refractive error, not reasonably related to medical need
• “The regulations permit discrimination in benefits based upon the degree of medical necessity but not upon the medical disorder from which the person suffers.”

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