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July 11, 2024
NHeLP Letter to CCIIO on DC EHB Procedural Defect
Wayne Turner and Héctor Hernández-Delgado Letter
NHeLP urges the HHS Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight (CCIIO) to reject the District of Columbia's recent EHB benchmark plan update due to procedural defects. Specifically, the DC Department of Insurance, Securities and Banking and DC HealthLink announced a public comment period only days before the submission…
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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 Cases
The National Health Law Program (NHeLP), together with Disability Rights DC at University Legal Services (DRDC) and Disability Rights Texas (DRTx), filed two separate complaints with the Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights alleging violations of the Americans with…
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March 7, 2023
Maldanado (formerly N.B.) v. District of Columbia, D.C. District Court, D.C. Circuit
Litigation Team Cases
Plaintiffs filed this class action case on behalf of Medicaid beneficiaries in the District of Columbia whose requests for outpatient prescription drugs are denied by pharmacy providers without written notice or opportunity to be heard. Plaintiffs claim that the failure to provide individualized written notice violates the Due Process…
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June 11, 2021
Salazar v. District of Columbia, D.C. District Court, D.C. Circuit
Litigation Team Cases
This class action was originally brought in 1996 on behalf of children and adults who had applied for Medicaid, with claims including that the Medicaid agency failed to: issue decisions and provide coverage within 45 days of a submitted application, provide advance notice of termination of benefits; provide or…
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June 11, 2021
Demanding Ascertainable Standards: Medicaid as a Case Study
Jane Perkins Issue Brief, Article
State Medicaid agencies and their contractors are increasingly relying on preset guidelines or assessment tools or both to make coverage decisions. Problems arise when the use of these tools results in program enrollees and advocates being refused access to the standards and procedures that govern the operation of the…
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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 Cases
National Health Law Program (NHeLP), Justice in Aging, and the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF) submitted an amicus brief in the Southern District of New York on behalf of themselves and 47 partners. The brief supports the State of New York and 22 other states’ motion for partial summary…
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NHeLP Letter to CCIIO on DC EHB Procedural Defect

DOJ and OCR Complaints: Complaints Filed Against Medicaid Programs in DC and Texas

Maldanado (formerly N.B.) v. District of Columbia, D.C. District Court, D.C. Circuit

Salazar v. District of Columbia, D.C. District Court, D.C. Circuit

Demanding Ascertainable Standards: Medicaid as a Case Study

Amicus: State of N.Y., et al. v. U.S. Dep’t Health & Human Servs., Southern District of New York