Kimberly Lewis is the Managing Director, California Advocacy and Practice Area Managing Director at the National Health Law Program’s Los Angeles offices. Kim works on state and national health care issues, including Medicaid and health reform implementation, by engaging in policy and administrative advocacy, impact litigation and technical assistance and training to state advocates.
Kim has worked to improve access to quality health care in California and nationally for more than three decades, including 10 years as an advocate in the mental health system. Kim serves as co-counsel on numerous class action lawsuits on behalf of children and youth with significant behavioral health needs to ensure they have access to intensive home and community based behavioral health services. In particular, she has focused on Medicaid’s mandate for children uner the Early and Periodic, Screening, Diagnostic and Treatment services obligation.
Before joining NHeLP, she was a senior health attorney at the Western Center on Law & Poverty, where she was responsible for statewide health policy advocacy in California on belalf of low-income individuals and families.
Kim is a graduate of the University of San Diego School of Law and grew up in Hawaii. She loves the ocean, hiking and skiing, and is the mother of boy/girl twins.
