Florida Medicaid sued over access to incontinence supplies
By HME News Staff
Updated 8:39 AM CDT, Wed July 27, 2022
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A lawsuit filed by attorneys for the Florida Health Justice Project and Disability Rights Florida on behalf of two women with disabilities alleges that Florida Medicaid is improperly denying coverage for incontinence supplies, in violation of federal law and the Americans with Disabilities Act. The lawsuit, reported in Health News Florida, says the state stopped providing the supplies to Blanca Meza and Destiny Belanger once they turned 21. “Plaintiffs are medically fragile adults each with bladder and bowel incontinence,” the lawsuit states. “As low-income Florida residents with significant disabilities, they receive their health services through Florida’s Medicaid program.” Without Medicaid paying for the supplies, Meza’s family faces $188 a month in costs, while Belanger’s family faces $200 a month in costs, according to the lawsuit.
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