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  • December 19, 2011

    Newton-Nations v. Betlach & Sebelius, District of Arizona and Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

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    Medicaid beneficiaries in Arizona challenged Arizona’s decision to impose expensive copayments that exceeded the limits set out in federal law, creating barriers to beneficiaries’ access to services. Plaintiffs also challenged the United States Department of Health and Human Services approval of those copayments through the federal Section 1115 authority.…

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  • May 31, 2011

    Pashby v. Cansler, Eastern District of North Carolina

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    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

    KC and LS v. Wos & Shipman, United States District Court, Eastern District of North Carolina

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    2011 Medicaid beneficiaries with disabling and chronic conditions challenged North Carolina’s failure to ensure that managed care organizations provided them with adequate notice and opportunity for a hearing when their developmental disability services were reduced or terminated using arbitrary and non-ascertainable standards, denying beneficiaries a meaningful opportunity to challenge…

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  • February 6, 2009

    Salazar v. District of Columbia D.D.C. and D.C. Circuit

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    A class of Medicaid beneficiaries in the District of Columbia challenged widespread problems in DC’s Medicaid program, including failing to timely process Medicaid applications, terminating benefits without advanced notice, and denying children the full scope of benefits they are entitled to under the Early and Periodic, Screening, Diagnosis, and…

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  • April 7, 2008

    McCartney v. Dempsey, Eastern District of North Carolina

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    Class of Medicaid-eligible children with behavioral, emotional, or developmental conditions challenged North Carolina’s decision to deny or reduce their requests for mental and behavioral health services, and for making those decisions without providing adequate notice or informing them of the right to continue receiving benefits during the appeal. Partner:…

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  • August 29, 2005

    Lankford v. Sherman, Western District of Missouri and Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals

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    Medicaid beneficiaries in Missouri challenged a regulation which eliminated coverage for many items of durable medical equipment, such as nebulizers, catheters, suction pumps, apnea monitors, and wheelchair accessories or scooters. Coverage was eliminated even where a medical provider said the devices were medically necessary. Without this equipment, plaintiffs and…

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