Insider Louisville: AARP, other national groups challenge Kentucky’s Medicaid waiver (January 30, 2019)

Justice in Aging, along with AARP and the AARP Foundation, the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys and the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, has jointly filed a brief that illuminates the harm of Kentucky’s Medicaid overhaul called the Kentucky HEALTH program. Kentucky’s older adults are more likely to be negatively impacted with the program’s rules and penalties, which includes a required 80 hours of  work related activities completed per month and the termination of non-emergency medical transportation benefits for some beneficiaries. A handful of other health-related groups, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, the National Alliance on Mental Illness and others, wrote a separate friend of the court brief. Read the full article.