WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 (UPI) -- A lawsuit against the District of Columbia regarding new Medicaid citizenship rules has been dropped.
The organization Bread for the City and 11 individual Washington, D.C. residents who filed a lawsuit against the District of Columbia to stop stringent new requirements for citizenship documentation -- which they say would cause the District's most vulnerable and in need to lose critical Medicaid benefits -- announced Friday they will soon dismiss the lawsuit without prejudice.
The lawsuit, filed by Crowell & Moring LLP on June 29, had aimed to enjoin the District from applying new requirements prompted by the federal government that could terminate Medicaid benefits for thousands of U.S. citizens in the District who cannot produce specific forms of paperwork to prove their birth in the country.
The dismissal, the plaintiffs said, is a result of clarifications issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid that exempt seniors and people with disabilities from the rule.
The plaintiffs in a national lawsuit, filed in the Chicago U.S. District Court, have decided to continue with their case despite the CMS changes.
