Students will help Medicaid recipients obtain medically-necessary nursing, services, or equipment through the fair hearing administrative process. The project involves two sessions, and priority will be given to student volunteers who can attend both sessions. In the first session, students will review and prepare summaries of evidence packets. In the second session, students will use the evidence summaries to draft letters of medical necessity, interrogatories, and complaints. Students also may interview clients and/or their families via phone as scheduling permits.
Organization
INCLUDE Project, Mithoff Pro Bono Program
The INCLUDE Project enables students with interests in disability and related areas of law to provide free legal serves to persons with disabilities and their families. INCLUDE is an internal project of the Richard and Ginni Mithoff Pro Bono Program, in partnership with the William Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest Law. The Medicaid Evidence Workshop is a collaboration between INCLUDE and Disability Rights Texas, the federally-funded Protection and Advocacy entity providing free legal services to persons with disabilities in Texas.
Project Details
- Project Start Date
March 10 & 11, 2020
- Project Time
- 5:45pm-8:45pm on March 10 & 11
- Approximate hours of work requested
- 6 hours; priority will be given to students who can attend both sessions
- Training
- Students will be trained at the beginning of each workshop
- Skills used
- Fact-gathering and record review; client interviewing/counseling; preparation of expert and lay witnesses; legal research and writing
- Project location
- Both workshops will be held in Sheffield-Massey Room (TNH 2.111)
- Number of student volunteers requested
- 24
- Class year preference
- 1L, 2L, 3L, LLM
- Required skills
- Strong English skills required; students with an interest in social justice, health law, and/or disability law are strongly encouraged to apply
- To Apply
- Students who can volunteer at both sessions should register at https://medicaidsp20.eventbrite.com ; students who can only volunteer at one session should send an email with the subject line “Medicaid Workshop wait list [DATE AVAILABLE]” to Sarah Sedgwick at ssedgwick@law.utexas.edu