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May 24, 2018
Ivory N. v. Kent, Northern District of California
Litigation Team and dfitzgerald Cases
Medicaid eligible children who require in-home nursing services challenged California’s failure to arrange for or provide those medically necessary services. The failure to provide in-home nursing services puts these children at serious risk of harm and institutionalization. Partners: Disability Rights California, Western Center on Law and Poverty
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November 20, 2015
O.B. v. Norwood, Northern District of Illinois and Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals
Litigation Team and dfitzgerald Cases
Class of children with disabilities and complex medical needs enrolled in Medicaid in Illinois challenged the Medicaid agency’s failure to provide or arrange for medically necessary in-home nursing services, as required by Medicaid’s Early and Periodic, Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment requirements and the Americans with Disabilities Act. Absent sufficient…
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May 29, 2014
Discriminatory Pharmacy Benefits Design in Select Qualified Health Plans Offered in Florida, Office of Civil Rights, Department of Health and Human Services
Litigation Team and dfitzgerald Cases
Complaint to the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services requesting that federal officials take action to end discrimination targeting people living with HIV/AIDS. The complaint alleges four Florida insurers (CoventryOne, Cigna, Humana and Preferred Medical) are violating the Affordable Care Act and…
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March 14, 2012
Davis v. Shah, Western District of New York and Second Circuit Court of Appeals
Litigation Team and dfitzgerald Cases
Medicaid beneficiaries in New York brought this lawsuit to compel the New York State Department of Health to cover medically necessary compression stockings and prescription footwear through the State’s Medicaid program, alleging that the failure to do so violated the Medicaid Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and Section…
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May 31, 2011
Pashby v. Cansler, Eastern District of North Carolina
Litigation Team and dfitzgerald Cases
Class of Medicaid beneficiaries who received in-home personal care services challenged State’s decision to narrow the standards for assessing need for in home assistance and practice of favoring services provided in adult care homes over services provided in homes of Medicaid beneficiaries. Partners: Disability Rights NC, Charlotte Center for…
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January 1, 2011
T.R. v. Dreyfus, Western District of Washington
Kimberly Lewis
2011 Medicaid eligible children and youths under 21 years old, with mental health needs, brought this lawsuit to obtain intensive home and community-based mental health services which they are entitled to through Medicaid’s Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment provisions. Partners: Disability Rights Washington, National Center for Youth…
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Ivory N. v. Kent, Northern District of California

O.B. v. Norwood, Northern District of Illinois and Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals

Discriminatory Pharmacy Benefits Design in Select Qualified Health Plans Offered in Florida, Office of Civil Rights, Department of Health and Human Services

Davis v. Shah, Western District of New York and Second Circuit Court of Appeals

Pashby v. Cansler, Eastern District of North Carolina

T.R. v. Dreyfus, Western District of Washington