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Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library, The George Washington University

2011

Legal

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Health Care Outlook For 2011 And Beyond: The Legal, Policy And Political Landscape, Mark L. Hayes Apr 2011

Health Care Outlook For 2011 And Beyond: The Legal, Policy And Political Landscape, Mark L. Hayes

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Medicaid And Access To The Courts, Sara J. Rosenbaum Apr 2011

Medicaid And Access To The Courts, Sara J. Rosenbaum

Health Policy and Management Faculty Publications

The Medicaid program is grounded in a statute that is one of the most complex of all federal laws. An insurer of more than 60 million people — and poised to begin serving 16 million more by 2019 — Medicaid will be reexamined this year, in all its legal complexities, by the U.S. Supreme Court, which has agreed to hear California's appeal in the case Maxwell-Jolly v. Independent Living Center of Southern California. The Court's ruling could fundamentally alter states' accountability to beneficiaries and providers when their official conduct allegedly violates Medicaid's essential federal requirements.