55 A.D.2d 617 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1976
In a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78, inter alia, to (1) prohibit appellants from requiring recipients of Supplemental Security Income (SSI) payments to reestablish their eligibility for Medicaid and (2) direct appellants to institute procedures to assist persons seeking entry into nursing homes who lack the ability to complete verification requirements in the completion of such requirements, the appeal is from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Nassau County, entered April 15, 1976, which, inter alia, (1) held the petition moot with regard to the petitioner, (2) held that appellants’ policy requiring SSI recipients to reapply for Medicaid when seeking nursing home care, is arbitrary, capricious and contrary to law and (3) directed appellants to institute certain changes in their policies and procedures regarding the extension of Medicaid assistance to SSI recipients. Judgment modified, on