Federal Case Settled for Vermont Plaintiff in Landmark Jimmo v. Sebelius Class Action − Medicare Coverage Finally Granted for Jimmo’s Skilled Maintenance Care

by the Center for Medicare Advocacy

Twenty-one months after winning a national class action lawsuit that sought to overturn Medicare’s practice of denying skilled maintenance care to patients who did not meet an “improvement standard,” plaintiff Glenda Jimmo is finally receiving Medicare coverage for skilled home health maintenance care benefits she was denied in 2007.

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