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- Searches the full text of all decisions on this site
- Use quotes to search for an exact phrase
- Use “NOT” to search for results that exclude a word or phrase
- Currently covers all decisions from 2020 to date, plus select decisions going back to 2000; I am continually adding more (415 decisions published as of 03/21/25)
- Only decisions relevant or useful to elder law attorneys are included
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Introduction: How to Research and Use Fair Hearing Decisions
Recently Published
- FCP 167655 (03/21/2016) Family Care benefits cannot be backdated
- MGE 173712 (09/07/2016) Institutional MA income eligibility based on SNF private rate
- MGE 208717 (11/26/2024) Successful cost motion after spousal IRA annuity appeal
- CWK 212235 (05/17/2024) Sole reliance on functional screen “algorithm” not sufficient to support disenrollment
- CWK 212281 (05/20/2024) Autistic teenager not functionally eligible for CLTS, detailed discussion
- CWA 212613 (05/30/2024) TMG failed to show provider’s rate increase exceeded “usual and customary rate”
- MKB 212148 (06/18/2024) 12-yo with diabetes was functionally eligible but not disabled
- MDD 212595 (05/14/2024) Mental health problems did not preclude gainful employment
- CWA 212824 (06/26/2024) Rate increase denied because services would continue regardless
- CWA 212682 (07/12/2024) IRIS would not pay for a second service dog
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Decisions by Issue
Note: This outline is loosely based on the Medicaid Eligibility Handbook and will be tweaked as this database matures. For now, many entries will have no related fair hearing decisions.
1 / Applications and Renewals +
2 / Nonfinancial Eligibility +
3.4 / Spousal impoverishment +