TLC Home Health Care, L.L.C. v. Iowa Department of Human Services

How courts have described this case

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• determining the phrase “home health services include the following services and items” to restrict or limit the class of covered services
• determining the phrase “home health services include the following services and items” to restrict or limit the class of covered services
• noting the legislature’s failure to include an explicit exception for insulin injections in the Iowa Medicaid statute, and concluding that “[i]f the legislature intends such an exception, it is its duty, not the court’s, to provide the exception in the statute”
• “It is a basic rule of statutory construction that we must ‘give effect, if possible, to every clause and word of a statute.’” (citation omitted)
• “The Medicaid program was established by Congress as part of Title XIX of the Social Security Act.”
• “It is a basic rule of statutory construction that we must ‘give effect, if possible, to every clause and word of a statute.’ ” (quoting United States v. Menasche, 348 U.S. 528, 538–39 (1955))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).