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Neb. agency asks judge to dismiss Medicaid lawsuit
Published Monday, July 07, 2008 at 07:06 PM
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) _ Nebraska's health agency has asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit that says the agency shouldn't have denied some Medicaid coverage. The Nebraska Appleseed Center for Law in the Public Interest filed the lawsuit in May in Lancaster County District Court. The lawsuit names the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services and various state officials as defendants. The lawsuit challenges what it says is Health and Human Services' policy of removing Medicaid coverage from parents who fail to fully meet work requirements under Nebraska's welfare-to-work program. Todd Landry, the director of the state agency's Division of Children and Family Services, says the lawsuit is frivolous.


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