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June 30, 2021
National Health Law Program Files Amicus in Missouri Medicaid Lawsuit
Jefferson City, MO – The National Health Law Program, on behalf of 33 health and patient advocacy groups and mostly Missouri-based health economists, law professors, and researchers, has filed an amicus brief with the Missouri Supreme Court. The Court is considering a case challenging the State’s refusal to implement the…
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June 30, 2021
A Promise Unfulfilled: Automated Medicaid Eligibility Decisions
Sarah Grusin Automated Decision-Making, Delivery System Reform, Disability, Eligibility & Enrollment, Medicaid Awareness Month, Uncategorized
States have spent millions of dollars building Medicaid eligibility systems that promise automated, real-time, and accurate eligibility decisions. This is a worthy goal because unnecessary paperwork burdens cause eligible individuals to lose coverage for failure to complete forms. The promise of automated eligibility determinations, however, is often not realized…
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June 29, 2021
Webinar: Quality and Accountability in Medicaid Managed Care — Where We Stand in 2021
David Machledt Issue Brief, Webinar
This webinar presents a recent series of papers that provide tips on leveraging managed care accountability tools, locating state quality data, and improving state reporting on health disparities. This includes updates on current implementation status of the 2016 Medicaid managed care regulations as well as links to various state…
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June 29, 2021
Children’s Health Under Medicaid A National Review of Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment Services 2015 – 2019
Daniel Young, Zamir M. Brown, Sarah Somers, and Jane Perkins Manual/Report
The Medicaid Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment program requires each state to complete a reporting form provided by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). This form, known as the Form CMS-416, measures the states’ efforts to ensure that…
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June 29, 2021
CMS Announces an $80 Million Funding Opportunity to Rebuild ACA Outreach and Enrollment Efforts
Dania Douglas Uncategorized
On June 4, 2021, HHS announced an $80 million dollar notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) to bolster Navigator programs in states with a Federally Facilitated Marketplace (FFM) for the 2022 plan year. The funding opportunity represents an eight fold funding increase in the Navigator program and reverses four years…
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June 28, 2021
Closing The Medicaid Coverage Gap: Preventing a Separate and Unequal Result
Madeline Morcelle Article
Expanding Medicaid is an urgent moral, anti-racist, health equity, reproductive justice, and economic imperative. Yet today, policymakers in twelve states refuse to do so—a discriminatory political choice intertwined with racism in policymaking. The result is the Medicaid coverage gap: an estimated 4.4 million people with low incomes—nearly all of…
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National Health Law Program Files Amicus in Missouri Medicaid Lawsuit

A Promise Unfulfilled: Automated Medicaid Eligibility Decisions

Webinar: Quality and Accountability in Medicaid Managed Care — Where We Stand in 2021

Children’s Health Under Medicaid A National Review of Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment Services 2015 – 2019

CMS Announces an $80 Million Funding Opportunity to Rebuild ACA Outreach and Enrollment Efforts

Closing The Medicaid Coverage Gap: Preventing a Separate and Unequal Result