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  • June 11, 2020

    K.B. v. Michigan D.H.H.S., Eastern District of Michigan

    A class of Medicaid-eligible children with intensive mental health care needs who are at risk of avoidable psychiatric hospitalizations or commitment to the juvenile delinquency system sued the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services for failing to provide needed mental health services in the community as required by…

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  • May 21, 2020

    A.A. v. Gee, Middle District of Louisiana

    Litigation Team

    Medicaid eligible children who require intensive home and community-based mental health services challenged Louisiana’s failure to arrange for or provide those medically necessary services. The failure to provide these services has forced thousands of Louisiana children to unnecessarily cycle in and out of hospitals and psychiatric facilities far away…

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  • February 19, 2020

    A.J. vs Gee, Middle District of Louisiana

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    Medicaid eligible children who require in-home nursing services challenged Louisiana’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.

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  • February 10, 2020

    Karen Vaughn v. Jennifer Walthall, et al., 7th Circuit Court of Appeals

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    Karen Vaughn has lived in the community for decades with the nursing and other services she needs. In 2016 she went to the hospital for what was expected to be a short stay but then could not find the Medicaid-funded nursing services she needed to return home. Ms. Vaughn…

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  • May 24, 2018

    Ivory N. v. Kent, Northern District of California

    Litigation Team and

    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

    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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