Students will help Medicaid recipients obtain medically necessary nursing, services, or equipment through the fair hearing administrative process. The project involves two workshops, and student volunteers must attend both workshops. In the first workshop, students will review evidence packets and prepare summaries of the evidence for each reviewed case. In the second workshop, students will draft letters of medical necessity. Students also may interview clients and/or their families as scheduling permits.
Organization
INCLUDE Project, Mithoff Pro Bono Program
The INCLUDE Project enables students with interests in disability and probate 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 Fair Hearings project 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
September 10 & 13, 2018
- Approximate hours of work requested
- 8 hours; students must be able to attend both workshops, which will be held on Monday, September 10, from 4pm-8pm and on Thursday, September 13, from 4pm-8pm
- 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
- JON 5.257
- Number of student volunteers requested
- 16
- 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
- Register at medicaidf18.eventbrite.com