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  • Medicaid Unwinding

    The federal COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) implemented flexibilities that help people across the country get on, and stay on, Medicaid. As a result, Medicaid enrollment numbers swelled during the pandemic.Originally, the flexibilities and protections put in place during the pandemic were going to end with the end of…

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  • NHeLP Comments on West Virginia Creating a Continuum of Care for Medicaid Enrollees with Substance Use Disorders (SUD) Demonstration Extension Request

    Hector Hernandez-Delgado

    In comments to HHS, NHeLP urges the Secretary to reject West Virginia's Section 1115 demonstration extension request to continue waiving the Institutions for Mental Diseases (IMD) exclusion. This letter emphasizes that while NHeLP is supportive of efforts to increase access to services for Medicaid beneficiaries with substance use disorders…

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  • California Health Programs Must Take Steps to Implement Non-Binary Gender Markers

    *Co-written with Madison Castle (Rising 3L at George Washington Law School)Non-binary individuals often fall through the cracks of our health care system. A common scenario involves forcing non-binary individuals to choose a gender in order to receive necessary medical care. When a health plan conducts outreach to their members…

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  • NHeLP’s California Budget Statement

    On June 30, 2022, the California Governor, Gavin Newsom, signed the 2022-2023 budget into law. The state’s historic $308 billion state budget will expand health care coverage for millions of low-income Californians, improve health care access for all Californians, protect reproductive freedoms and expand reproductive health care, and provide…

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  • NHeLP Condemns Killing of Jayland Walker

    Again, police stopped a Black man for a traffic violation and again the Black man was shot and killed. His name was Jayland Walker. On June 27, Akron, Ohio police stopped him because of a traffic infraction. The stop led to a chase and police officers fired approximately 90…

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  • NHeLP Statement on Highland Park Shooting

    On July 4th, 2022, seven people were killed and more than two dozen people- ranging from 8 years old to 85 years old were seriously injured in a mass shooting at a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Illinois. A person of interest was arrested and a “high-powered…

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