Trilby de JungSenior Staff AttorneyEmpire Justice Center p: (585) 454-4060 f: (585) 454-2518 Trilby de Jung is a senior staff attorney with the Public Benefits & Health Unit in Empire Justice Center’s Rochester office. Trilby engages in impact litigation, policy analysis, and legislative and administrative advocacy in order to improve access to health care for low-income New Yorkers. She also provides legal training, technical assistance and back-up support to civil legal services attorneys and other health advocates statewide. Some of Trilby's recent projects include Blair v. Novello, a class action case that resulted in higher income levels for elderly and disabled couples applying for Medicaid, and successful legislative advocacy for measures to streamline Medicaid application systems and maximize funding for hospital charity care. Trilby directs the Medicaid Notices Project at Empire Justice Center, funded by the United Hospital Fund to revise complex and confusing Medicaid notices in collaboration with the State Department of Health. Until last year, she also coordinated the Empire Justice Center's medical-legal collaborative, a project funded by the New York State Health Foundation that brought legal advocacy services on site at a local community health center. Trilby is a founding member and serves on the executive committee of Medicaid Matters New York, a statewide coalition of over 130 organizations advocating on behalf of Medicaid consumers. She also serves on the Board of the Rochester Center for Disability Rights and the Medicare Part D Coalition, and participates in the Partnership for the Uninsured, a project of the Finger Lakes Heath Systems Planning Agency. Trilby regularly authors articles on Medicaid and other public health programs for the statewide Legal Services Journal, and serves as the gubernatorial appointee on two statewide commissions: The Health Care Quality and Cost Containment Commission and the Medicaid Managed Care Advisory Review Panel. Trilby began her legal career as a public defender with the Legal Aid Society in Brooklyn, New York. Prior to joining Empire Justice in 2003, Trilby spent three years on the lawyering faculty at New York University, served as Deputy Director of Policy for the AIDS Institute at the New York State Department of Health, and litigated civil rights complaints for the New York City Human Rights Division. She has recently been appointed by Governor Paterson to serve on New York’s Medicaid Managed Care Advisory Review Panel and the newly formed Health Care Quality and Cost Containment Commission. Trilby earned her Bachelors of Arts from Colorado College and her law degree from Northwestern School of Law at Lewis and Clark College. Practice Area(s):
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