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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- February 16, 2023
AMICUS: Fain v. Crouch, Fourth Circuit
Litigation Team CasesRead moreMedicaid beneficiaries challenged a West Virginia policy excluding coverage of gender-affirming surgery. The district court granted summary judgment for…
- February 16, 2023
Dekker v. Marstiller, Northern District of Florida
Litigation Team CasesRead moreFour transgender Medicaid beneficiaries filed a lawsuit challenging a Florida regulation that prohibits coverage of medically necessary gender-affirming care.…
- August 19, 2020
Doe v. Snyder, Ninth Circuit
Litigation Team CasesRead moreTwo transgender young people enrolled in Medicaid filed a class action lawsuit challenging an Arizona regulation that prohibits coverage…
- 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 28, 2020
Schwartz v. Cal DHCS, Superior Court of California
Abbi Coursolle and Kimberly Lewis CasesRead moreAn adult California Medicaid (Medi-Cal) beneficiary is challenging the California Department of Health Care Services and her county Mental…
- 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…
- September 23, 2019
Rose v. Azar, D.D.C.
Litigation Team Court Document, CasesRead moreIndiana residents enrolled in Medicaid filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration challenging its extension of a Section 1115…
- January 22, 2019
Amicus: Planned Parenthood of South Atlantic v. Baker
Read moreThe National Health Law Program filed an amicus brief in support of Planned Parenthood urging the Court to reject…
- April 30, 2018
Flack v. Wisconsin Department of Health Services, Western District of Wisconsin
Litigation Team and dfitzgerald CasesRead moreTwo transgender Wisconsin residents enrolled in Medicaid challenged the State’s discriminatory prohibition on covering medically necessary treatments for gender…
- January 24, 2018
Stewart v. Azar, D.D.C. and D.C. Circuit
Litigation Team and Jane Perkins CasesRead moreSixteen Kentuckians enrolled in Medicaid filed a class action lawsuit against the Trump administration challenging its approval of a…
- October 18, 2016
J.E.M. et al. v. Kinkade, Western District of Missouri
Litigation Team and dfitzgerald CasesRead moreMissouri Medicaid beneficiaries with hepatitis C brought a lawsuit to challenge Missouri’s policy denying them access to direct-acting antiretroviral…
- August 8, 2016
Amicus: Alaska v. Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest, Supreme Court of the State of Alaska
Litigation Team and dfitzgerald CasesRead moreThe National Health Law Program and the Northern Justice Project filed an amicus brief in support of Planned Parenthood,…
- 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…
- August 29, 2005
Lankford v. Sherman, Western District of Missouri and Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals
Litigation Team and dfitzgerald CasesRead moreMedicaid beneficiaries in Missouri challenged a regulation which eliminated coverage for many items of durable medical equipment, such as…
- March 15, 2005
Edmunds v. Levine, Southern District of Florida
Litigation Team CasesRead moreClass of severely disabled Medicaid recipients challenged Florida’s decision to deny coverage of a prescription drug, Neurontin, for medically…
