Haley v. Commissioner of Public Welfare

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting the \unreasonableness\ of a denial of Medicaid benefits to an applicant with $500 excess resources and $17,500 in hospital bills when the applicant \was incapable of spending down her resources\
• based on statute that explicitly applied resource spend down, court held Massachusetts Medicaid plan required it
• 42 U.S.C. § 1396a(a)(17) \provide[s] for application of the spend down principle to income eligibility determinations\
• “the Legislature intended the . . . benefits program to comply with the Federal statutory and regulatory scheme”
• improper to rely on HCFA action transmittal because it was “unpersuasive, especially where the interpretation resulted] in a change from prior practice”
• “the State program must be approved and meet all the requirements of Title XIX and the implementing regulations”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).