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  • October 13, 2017

    Amicus: Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas v. Smith, Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals

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    The National Health Law Program filed an amicus brief in support of Planned Parenthood, urging the Court to reject Texas’s effort to exclude Planned Parenthood from the State’s Medicaid program. The amicus brief explains the importance that Planned Parenthood plays in ensuring that Medicaid beneficiaries have access to family…

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  • October 18, 2016

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

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    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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  • August 8, 2016

    Amicus: Alaska v. Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest, Supreme Court of the State of Alaska

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    The National Health Law Program and the Northern Justice Project filed an amicus brief in support of Planned Parenthood, urging the Alaska Supreme Court to enjoin a state law that limited abortion coverage for Medicaid-eligible women in Alaska based on an extremely narrow definition of medical necessity. The amicus…

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  • July 22, 2016

    Darjee v. Betlach, District of Arizona

    Litigation Team

    Low-income immigrant residents of Arizona who were eligible for full Medicaid benefits, but whose benefits were reduced to emergency-only benefits, filed suit against the state Medicaid agency for preventing them from accessing the full scope of necessary medical care. Plaintiffs alleged that these benefit reductions violated the obligation to…

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  • February 17, 2016

    Amicus: Zubik v. Burwell, Supreme Court of the United States

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    The National Health Law Program filed a brief urging the Supreme Court to uphold the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive coverage requirement, which ensures that contraceptives are among the preventive health services offered with no cost-sharing. The amicus brief provides an in-depth understanding of the impact of cost-sharing on health…

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  • November 20, 2015

    O.B. v. Norwood, Northern District of Illinois and Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals

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    Class of children with disabilities and complex medical needs enrolled in Medicaid in Illinois challenged the Medicaid agency’s failure to provide or arrange for medically necessary in-home nursing services, as required by Medicaid’s Early and Periodic, Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment requirements and the Americans with Disabilities Act. Absent sufficient…

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