Cases in which medically fragile children are being wrongly terminated from eligibility for the Texas Medicaid Medically Dependent Children's Program (MDCP) are becoming all too common (see story about Kristen).
With the continued rising demand for DRTx to provide legal assistance to these families, we are grateful to the JP Morgan Chase Legal Department for their continued commitment to our Children's Medicaid Pro-Bono Project and for the successful outcomes they have achieved.
One case involved the assistance of Chase attorneys Julie Jared and Tina Tuccelli. MDCP eligibility was terminated for a child with significant disabilities requiring nursing home level of care home-health services if he was to continue living in his family home.
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Fifteen-year-old Kristen needs help 24 hours a day because of multiple disabilities. But after 7 years of receiving services through the Texas Medicaid Medically Dependent Children's Program (MDCP), she was suddenly and unexplainably found ineligible. 
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