Federal judge schedules Floridas Medicaid eligibility trial after thousands dropped WFTV [Video]

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A federal judge has scheduled a trial May 13 in a lawsuit over people being dropped from Florida’s Medicaid program after the end of a federal public-health emergency that was declared in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Jacksonville-based U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard issued an order Friday scheduling the trial, according to a court docket.

Attorneys for Medicaid beneficiaries filed a potential class-action lawsuit in August, alleging that the state was not properly informing people before dropping them from the health-care program.

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They filed an amended version of the lawsuit in January.

The lawsuit is rooted in last spring’s end of the federal public-health emergency.

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Medicaid is jointly funded by the federal and state governments, …