Hession v. Illinois Department of Public Aid

How courts have described this case

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

• based on clear manifestation of legislative intent to preserve beneficiaries’ resources, court held that Illinois Medicaid plan required resource spend down
• “Simply stated, we perceive nothing in section 1396a(a)(17) which precludes a State that participates in the Medicaid program from using the resource spend down methodology if it chooses to do so.”
• “Simply stated, we perceive nothing in section 1396a(a)(17) which precludes a State that participates in the Medicaid program from using the resource spend down methodology if it chooses to do so.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).