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  • May 18, 2018

    Amicus: United States v. California, Eastern District of California, 9th Circuit

    Litigation Team and

    The National Health Law Program submitted an amicus brief on behalf of the organization, and 42 other legal health organizations, and human and civil rights advocates, and labor groups opposing the Trump administration's heavy-handed effort to overturn three California laws that provide vital protections for immigrants in their communities,…

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  • April 30, 2018

    Flack v. Wisconsin Department of Health Services, Western District of Wisconsin

    Litigation Team and

    Two transgender Wisconsin residents enrolled in Medicaid challenged the State’s discriminatory prohibition on covering medically necessary treatments for gender dysphoria, including what the State’s regulation termed “transsexual surgery.” Plaintiffs argued that the categorical denial of these services subjects transgender people in Wisconsin to second class status, prevents them from…

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  • January 24, 2018

    Stewart v. Azar, D.D.C. and D.C. Circuit

    Litigation Team and

    Sixteen Kentuckians enrolled in Medicaid filed a class action lawsuit against the Trump administration challenging its approval of a section 1115 waiver, which would allow sweeping changes to Kentucky’s Medicaid program, including work requirements, premiums, lockouts, and other changes, that will terminate Medicaid coverage of tens of thousands of…

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  • October 21, 2017

    Amicus: California v. Trump, Northern District of California

    Litigation Team and

    The National Health Law Program filed an amicus brief in support of California, urging the Court to require the federal government to make the cost sharing reduction payments (CSRs) required by the Affordable Care Act. The amicus brief describes the immediate, harmful, and irreparable effects on consumers of the…

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  • May 12, 2017

    Protect Medi-Cal Funding Series, Children’s Health in California

    In the first of a 12-part "Protect Medi-Cal Funding," series, NHeLP Staff Attorney Alicia Kauk details the importance of California's Medicaid program, Medi-Cal, to children's health in the state. The first Issue Brief, "Children's Health in California," notes that 5.7 million rely on Medi-Cal and that 42 percent of…

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  • October 18, 2016

    J.E.M. et al. v. Kinkade, Western District of Missouri

    Litigation Team and

    Missouri Medicaid beneficiaries with hepatitis C brought a lawsuit to challenge Missouri’s policy denying them access to direct-acting antiretroviral (DAA) medications, which clinical studies have shown cures the disease in more than 90% to 95% of cases. Without treatment, the hepatitis C virus can result in significant liver deterioration…

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