Public Benefits: Health Law
  

The goal of the Health Law Team is to increase people’s access to the health care benefits to which they are entitled under the law.

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Alpha Hernandez Del Rio
Courtney Schusheim Laredo Migrant
Elizabeth Molina El Paso
Judith A. Sanders-Castro San Antonio
Kathryn Newell San Antonio
Maria N. Martinez San Antonio
Michael E. Urena Eagle Pass
Nicole Worsley Love San Antonio
Rebekah Estelle Herrmann Batot Kerrville Office
Reneé Trevino (Team Manager)San Antonio
Susan F. Zinn San Antonio
Walquiria Trujillo Sanchez Austin
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Anita Acosta Harlingen
Matias Villalobos Edinburg
Monica Lopez El Paso
Sergio Garza Harlingen
Tere Tillotson San Antonio
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Laws

Federal Agencies

State Agencies

    Texas Department of State Health Services
    The home page for the Texas Department of State Health Services.

    Access your Texas Benefits Online
    yourtexasbenefits.com offers you easy and secure online access to Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) benefits including Medicaid, Food Stamps, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), Children's Health Insurance, and nursing home care and other services for people who are elderly or have disabilities.

    County Indigent Health Care Program
    The County Indigent Heath Care Program provides health care services to eligible residents through the counties, hospital districts and public hospitals in Texas. Click here for more information about the program.

    CSHCN - Medical Transportation Program
    Children with Special Health Care Needs Program Health Benefits.

    The Medical Transportation Program, provides eligible Medicaid recipients with transportation to their health care appointments

    Health and Human Services Commission
    Texas Health and Human Services Commission, site provides assistance in locating health and social services help in your community.

    Texas Department of State Health Services, Woman's Right to Know Act - House Bill 15, How to use the resource directory
    During the 2003 legislative session, the Texas Legislature passed the Woman's Right to Know Act. This legislation requires physicians to provide women with certain information at least 24 hours prior to performing an abortion.

    To locate the DHS office in your area, call the following toll-free number: 1 (888) 834-7406

    About the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation
    The Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation (TDMHMR), which was created in 1965, ceased operations on Sept. 1, 2004. The department has worked to improve the quality and efficiency of public and private services and supports for Texans with mental illnesses and with mental retardation so that they can increase their opportunities and abilities to lead lives of dignity and independence.

Legal Resources

    National Health Law Program - National Health Law Program
    National Health Law Program is a national public interest law firm that seeks to improve health care for America's poor, particularly in the areas of Medicaid and state and local health care programs for the poor.

    Shriver Center - Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law
    The Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law provides national leadership in identifying, developing, and supporting creative and collaborative approaches to achieve social and economic justice for low-income people and communities. The Center engages in direct advocacy campaigns in Illinois and around the country to improve policies and programs on specific issues, and also engages in broader advocacy on general issues of justice, opportunity, and human rights.

    Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law -- Advocating for the Civil Rights and Human Dignity of People with Mental Disabilities
    For three decades, the Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law has been the nation's leading legal advocate for people with mental disabilities. Our precedent-setting litigation has outlawed institutional abuse and won protections against arbitrary confinement. In the courts and in Congress, our advocacy has opened up public schools, workplaces, housing and other opportunities for people with mental disabilities to participate in community life.

    National Center for Youth Law - youthlaw.org
    The National Center for Youth Law (NCYL) uses the law to improve the lives of poor children. NCYL works to ensure that low-income children have the resources, support, and opportunities they need for a healthy and productive future. Much of NCYL's work is focused on poor children who are additionally challenged by abuse and neglect, disability, or other disadvantage.

    Saint Louis University School of Law
    Welcome to the Saint Louis University School of Law. SLU LAW is home to the number one Health Law program in the nation.

Research and Statistics

Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)

Medicare / Medicaid

    Medicare.gov - The Official U.S. Government Site for People with Medicare
    Medicare.gov is a consumer beneficiary Website that provides access to information about Medicare, Medicare health plans, contact information and publications, as well as information about health care fraud and abuse and nursing homes.

    Medicaid home
    The Medicaid Clearinghouse from Families USA provides extensive publications and links concerning federal and state Medicaid developments and advocacy strategies

Advocacy

    KidsHealth - the Web's most visited site about children's health
    idsHealth is the largest and most-visited site on the Web providing doctor-approved health information about children from before birth through adolescence. Created by The Nemours Foundation's Center for Children's Health Media, the award-winning KidsHealth provides families with accurate, up-to-date, and jargon-free health information they can use. KidsHealth has been on the Web since 1995 — and has been accessed by about half a billion visitors. On a typical weekday, more than 500,000 visitors access KidsHealth's reliable information.

    AARP: Health, Travel, Baby Boomers, Elections, Financial Planning, Family, Games, Volunteer, Retirement, Discounts, Seniors
    AARP is a membership organization leading positive social change and delivering value to people age 50 and over through information, advocacy and service. Resources on retirement, social security, medicare and aging; discounts on drugs, travel, insurance, financial services, and a wide range of unique senior benefits, special products, games, retirement calculator and services for seniors.

    Children's Defense Fund
    Children's Defense Fund (CDF) is a non-profit child advocacy organization that has worked for 35 years to help America's children. CDF advocates health care coverage for all children and access to quality education, and champions policies & programs designed to help end child poverty, and protect children from abuse and neglect.

    Families USA: The Voice for Health Care Consumers
    Families USA is a national nonprofit, non-partisan organization dedicated to the achievement of high-quality, affordable health care for all Americans. Working at the national, state, and community levels, we have earned a national reputation as an effective voice for health care consumers for 25 years.

    Family Voices, Inc. Homepage
    Family Voices aims to achieve family-centered care for all children and youth with special health care needs and/or disabilities.

    Health Care For All - Health Care For All, health, reform, massachusetts, healthcare, policy
    Health Care For All is one of the nation's leading state-based, non-profit consumer health care advocacy organizations. Health Care For All seeks to create a consumer-centered health care system that provides comprehensive, affordable, accessible, culturally competent, high quality care and consumer education for everyone, especially the most vulnerable.

    Health Care For All Texas

    We Are a grassroots organization that believes health care is a human right. Every person in the state of Texas deserves access to high quality health care at an affordable cost.

    Our Mission is to promote single-payer health care for all through community education and policy setting.

    Our Vision is a health care system based on six guiding principles: universality, accessibility, affordability, accountability, comprehensiveness and justice.

Prescription Drugs- Free or Low-Cost

Most pharmaceutical companies have “prescription drug assistance programs” that provide free or low-cost prescription drugs to patients who can’t afford them. These programs vary considerably from company to company and from drug to drug. Physicians or other health care providers must apply to the programs on their patients’ behalf, but patients can obtain program information and applications themselves. The following sites help patients and physicians to access these programs.

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The Public Benefits: Health Law Team

The Objectives

Our Activities

  • Help clients with litigation and representation in health law, health care access, administrative hearings, brief service and workman's comp cases.
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