In partnership with state health advocates, the National Health Law Program litigates on behalf of low-income people, people with disabilities, and organizations serving these groups. Many of our cases have changed institutional practices and set lasting health care precedents. While each state is different, cases in one state can create important precedents and models for advocates across the country.
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- March 12, 2024
DOJ and OCR Complaints: Complaints Filed Against Medicaid Programs in DC and Texas
Elizabeth Edwards, Jane Perkins, and Litigation Team CasesRead moreThe National Health Law Program (NHeLP), together with Disability Rights DC at University Legal Services (DRDC) and Disability Rights…
- February 21, 2024
OCR Complaint: Advocates Urge HHS Office for Civil Rights to Stop Colorado Medicaid Cuts, Citing Disabilities Act Violations
Read moreThe Colorado Center on Law and Policy (CCLP) and the National Health Law Program (NHeLP) filed a complaint with…
- November 2, 2022
Franklin v. Kinsley, Eastern District of North Carolina
Litigation Team CasesRead moreThis case was formerly known as Hawkins v. Cohen. Adults and children enrolled in Medicaid filed a class action…
- August 31, 2022
S.J, et. al v. Knodell, Western District of Missouri
Read moreThis case was formerly known as S.J v. Tidball. Nine children with medically complex conditions who are enrolled in…
- May 9, 2022
C.K. v. Bassett, Eastern District of N.Y.
Read morePlaintiffs are two children on Medicaid who have been deprived of the intensive mental health services necessary for them…
- June 11, 2021
Cyrus ex rel. McSweeney v. Nusbaum, Southern District of West Virginia
Litigation Team CasesRead moreIn 2004, a class of recipients of West Virginia’s Medicaid HCBS waiver program for older adults and people with…
- November 19, 2020
Amicus: N.R. v. Raytheon Company, U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit
Litigation Team CasesRead moreNational Health Law Program, Autism Legal Research Center and eight other organizations submitted an amicus brief in the First…
- September 23, 2020
T.R. v. Dreyfus, U.S. District Court, Western District of Washington
Litigation Team CasesRead moreThis class action lawsuit against the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) was brought on behalf…
- September 23, 2020
Amicus: State of N.Y., et al. v. U.S. Dep’t Health & Human Servs., Southern District of New York
Litigation Team CasesRead moreNational Health Law Program (NHeLP), Justice in Aging, and the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF) submitted an amicus…
- June 11, 2020
K.B. v. Michigan D.H.H.S., Eastern District of Michigan
Read moreA class of Medicaid-eligible children with intensive mental health care needs who are at risk of avoidable psychiatric hospitalizations…
- May 26, 2020
A.M.C. v. Smith, Middle District of Tennessee
Read moreThirty-five children and adults from across Tennessee brought a class action challenging the State for wrongfully terminating people’s health…
- May 21, 2020
A.A. v. Gee, Middle District of Louisiana
Litigation Team CasesRead moreMedicaid eligible children who require intensive home and community-based mental health services challenged Louisiana’s failure to arrange for or…
- February 19, 2020
A.J. vs Gee, Middle District of Louisiana
Read moreMedicaid eligible children who require in-home nursing services challenged Louisiana’s failure to arrange for or provide those medically necessary…
- February 10, 2020
Karen Vaughn v. Jennifer Walthall, et al., 7th Circuit Court of Appeals
Read moreKaren Vaughn has lived in the community for decades with the nursing and other services she needs. In 2016…
- May 24, 2018
Ivory N. v. Kent, Northern District of California
Litigation Team and dfitzgerald CasesRead moreMedicaid eligible children who require in-home nursing services challenged California’s failure to arrange for or provide those medically necessary…
- November 20, 2015
O.B. v. Norwood, Northern District of Illinois and Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals
Litigation Team and dfitzgerald CasesRead moreClass of children with disabilities and complex medical needs enrolled in Medicaid in Illinois challenged the Medicaid agency’s failure…
- 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 CasesRead moreComplaint to the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services requesting that federal…
- March 14, 2012
Davis v. Shah, Western District of New York and Second Circuit Court of Appeals
Litigation Team and dfitzgerald CasesRead moreMedicaid beneficiaries in New York brought this lawsuit to compel the New York State Department of Health to cover…
- May 31, 2011
Pashby v. Cansler, Eastern District of North Carolina
Litigation Team and dfitzgerald CasesRead moreClass of Medicaid beneficiaries who received in-home personal care services challenged State’s decision to narrow the standards for assessing…
