A new federal proof-of-citizenship requirement for Medicaid patients that District nonprofit leaders feared would leave thousands of residents without medical care has been altered to exempt many of the city’s most vulnerable patients.

A lawsuitto stop the District from enforcing the new rule, filed in June by local nonprofit Bread for the City and 11 individual Medicare patients, was scheduled to be withdrawn Friday afternoon, said officials with Crowell & Moring, the law firm that filed the suit.

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