An incapacitated Florida girl asked the U.S. Supreme Court to declare that the state’s Medicaid agency can recover payments it made for her medical expenses only out of the part of a settlement designated to pay past costs.
Gianinna Gallardo was 13 when a truck struck her minutes after she’d stepped off a school bus. She’s in a persistent vegetative state and faces a lifetime of expensive care.
But $300,000 of her $800,000 personal injury settlement with the truck’s owner and driver has been claimed by Florida’s Medicaid agency for repayment of past medical expenses it paid on Gallardo’s behalf. ...