Litigation
Litigation
NHeLP provides litigation support by:
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drafting and reviewing pleadings and briefs formulating
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litigation strategies conducting discovery or preparing
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discovery plans identifying expert consultants and
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witnessesarguing motions and appeals co-counseling cases
Without NHeLP, we would spend an inordinate amount of resources to achieve the same result.
--Robert D. Hunt, Attorney, The Health Law Task Force, Vermont Legal Aid
Recent landmark victories:
1998-1999: improved availability of and access to home and community based services for children and adults in Louisiana, Maine, and West Virginia.
1995 - brought preventive health services to children in West Virginia's foster care system
1994 - required health and quality improvements for elderly and disabled people living in West Virginia's residential board and care homes (1994)
1993 - strengthened nationwide federal enforcement of lead-blood screening requirements for poor children
1992 - improved disenrollment and grievance processes for Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in HMOs
1990 - improved maternity and dental care provider participation in California's Medicaid program
1989 - established indigent patients' rights to basic health care in state-funded non-Medicaid programs (the first published judicial opinion on this issue)
NHeLP . . . is the most important repository of technical Medicaid expertise in the United States.
-- Gordon Bonnyman, Jr., Attorney
In the health care and health insurance maze in which millions of Americans find themselves, NHeLP assists local programs in providing . . . effective legal services to millions of the nation's poorest people. . .
--Pete Stark, Member of Congress (D-CA)
