Professor Medha D. Makhlouf quoted in Law360 article

CARLISLE, PA—Professor Medha D. Makhlouf was recently quoted in a Law360 article about new federal work requirements for people enrolled in Medicaid, part of an overhaul of the program that the article suggests may face legal challenges.

“Loper Battle Looms For Medicaid Frailty Work Exemption” discusses the questions raised by proposed regulations directing state Medicaid programs to exempt medically frail adults from the work mandate only if their health “significantly impairs” their ability to hold a job. The impairment language isn’t included as a requirement in the federal law enacting work requirements and outlining exceptions, muddying the waters.

Makhlouf commented on the vagueness of the impairment language in the proposed regulation, pointing out that it leaves it largely up to medical providers to determine who should receive an exemption. “I predict that providers will find it challenging to feel confident that they are interpreting it correctly,” she is quoted as saying in the article.

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Professor Medha D. Makhlouf is the Elsie de R. and Samuel P. Orlando Distinguished Professor and founding director of the Medical-Legal Partnership Clinic at Penn State Dickinson Law. She has a joint appointment in the Department of Public Health Sciences at Penn State College of Medicine. Professor Makhlouf’s research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of health law, immigrants’ rights, and poverty law and policy. Her recent scholarship has been published in the Boston University Law Review, New York University Law Review, and the Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law & Ethics. Professor Makhlouf is currently writing a book, tentatively titled Health Justice for Migrants, which is under contract with Cambridge University Press.