Archive for March, 2018

Washington state recently passed a suite of laws that expand and protect access to quality, affordable reproductive health care. These critical victories, many of which came after several years of community advocacy, are part of a larger trend of state legislation aiming to bolster protections for contraceptive coverage, abortion…

The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) proposed changes to the Medicaid “equal access” rule that are intended to erode beneficiaries’ access to covered Medicaid services.As background, state Medicaid programs must set payment rates to ensure provider participation such that Medicaid services are available at least as…