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Augmenting Advocacy: Giving Voice To The Medical-Legal Partnership Model In Medicaid Proceedings And Beyond, Marybeth Musumeci Jul 2011

Augmenting Advocacy: Giving Voice To The Medical-Legal Partnership Model In Medicaid Proceedings And Beyond, Marybeth Musumeci

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

The denial of Medicaid coverage for augmentative communication devices, despite an existing legal framework that mandates the opposite result, raises fundamental questions about what independence means for people with disabilities. This situation, compounded by the barriers in the Medicaid administrative appeal process encountered by such beneficiaries, invites new approaches to the delivery of civil legal services, such as medical-legal partnerships (MLPs). MLPs are formalized arrangements that bring lawyers into a healthcare setting to provide specialist consultations when patients experience legal problems that affect health. While there is an emerging scholarship on MLPs, this Article offers the first in-depth analysis of …


Aids And Government: A Plan Of Action?, Taunya Lovell Banks May 1989

Aids And Government: A Plan Of Action?, Taunya Lovell Banks

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Report of the Presidential Commission on the Human Immunodeficiency Virus Epidemic by Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office


Selective Nontreatment Of Handicapped Newborns, Michigan Law Review Feb 1985

Selective Nontreatment Of Handicapped Newborns, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Selective Nontreatment of Handicapped Newborns by Robert Weir