PROFESSOR MAKHLOUF CO-AUTHORS ARTICLE IN JAMA HEALTH FORUM
July 2023 — Professor Medha D. Makhlouf recently co-authored an article, “State Flexibility in Emergency Medicaid to Care for Uninsured Noncitizens,” in JAMA Health Forum, an international, peer-reviewed, online, open-access journal that addresses health policy and strategies affecting medicine, health, and health care. Professor Makhlouf’s co-authors are Jin K. Park, A.B. and Clarisa Reyes-Becerra, J.D.
Professor Makhlouf stated, “This piece addresses a novel and timely topic: the flexibility that states have to define the health conditions that qualify for reimbursement under Emergency Medicaid. Emergency Medicaid is one of the most important (but neglected) forms of federally reimbursable care for noncitizen populations. As pandemic-era funding and programs wind down, states seeking to address unmet health care needs should consider whether Emergency Medicaid could provide solutions in some cases.”
Professor Medha D. Makhlouf is the Elsie de R. and Samuel P. Orlando Distinguished Professor and the 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 New York University Law Review, the California Law Review Online, and the Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law & Ethics. Professor Makhlouf’s work is available online.