This database is currently sponsored by the Wisconsin chapter of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, the Elder Law & Special Needs Section of the State Bar of Wisconsin, and Krause Financial. I thank them for their support!
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- Currently covers all decisions from 2020 to date, plus select decisions going back to 2000; I am continually adding more (458 decisions published as of 08/22/25)
- Only decisions relevant or useful to elder law attorneys are included
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Introduction: How to Research and Use Fair Hearing Decisions
Recently Published
- MDV 55/83139 (05/09/2007) Land intended for future home was not exempt homestead
- FCP 217629 (05/05/2025) Increased SHC hours not backdated
- MAP 217949 (05/13/2025) MAPP disability denied, could perform simple jobs despite mental health
- CWA 216742 (08/04/2025) Successful cost motion after appeal of DLS services termination
- MAP 216925 (04/24/2025) Cancer patient continued to be MAPP disabled despite improvement
- MGE 217838 (07/15/2025) Spousal support payments deducted from Community Waivers income
- MGE 216329 (05/09/2025) Family Care backdated because agency failed to notify that it hadn’t received entire fax
- MGE 216221 (05/02/2025) IRIS backdated after 50-day delay caused by fiscal employer agent under corrective action
- FCP 216239 (05/02/2025) Family Care backdated after unexplained delay in ADRC referral
- FCP 216187 (04/25/2025) MCO failed to prove that supportive home care was more cost-effective than CBRF
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Decisions by Issue
Note: This outline is loosely based on the Medicaid Eligibility Handbook and will be tweaked as this database matures. For now, many entries will have no related fair hearing decisions.
1 / Applications and Renewals +
2 / Nonfinancial Eligibility +
3.4 / Spousal impoverishment +