K.K. VS. DIVISION OF MEDICAL ASSISTANCE AND HEALTH
SERVICES, ET AL.
A-5447-15T3
K.K., an eighty-eight-year old legal permanent resident who entered the country in 1991, left in 2007 and returned in 2014, is entitled to Medicaid payments without waiting five years because he entered the country before August 22, 1996. The agency's ruling to the contrary is reversed based on a de novo interpretation of federal statutory requirements.