Legal aid groups are suing the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA), accusing the agency of failing to manage critical home-care services for plaintiffs suffering from conditions such as quadriplegia and Alzheimer’s disease.

The Gainesville-based Southern Legal Counsel, Legal Services of Greater Miami and pro bono attorney Nancy Wright filed the federal lawsuit on Sept. 23 in the Northern District of Florida. The complaint was filed on behalf of five plaintiffs, aged 22 to 84, alleging that the AHCA violated the plaintiffs’ constitutional rights, the Medicaid Act, Americans With Disabilities Act and a section of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.

The plaintiffs and their home-based caregivers have experienced systemic reductions or denials of critical care services, as well as misleading notices, inaccurate health assessments and tactics that keep them in the dark about service changes, according to the lawsuit. 

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