Waiting for her Medicaid provider to approve her repeated requests for a liver transplant, 37-year-old Jacksonville mother Alisa Wilson died in November.
Alisa’s care cost taxpayers $482,000, essentially to let her die slowly. Her transplant was arranged on time, but Medicaid refused to pay because she had reached her 45-day hospital stay limit. She was forced to switch to a fee-for-service program, and in the paper-shuffling process, she died.