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  • NHeLP Prepares for the Resumption of Medicaid Renewals

    Washington, DC - During the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) implemented flexibilities to help people across the country get on, and stay on, Medicaid. As these adjustments were primarily intended to address the effects of a rapidly evolving pandemic, many flexibilities…

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  • NHeLP Comments on Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act;

    In these comments on the NBPP 2024 Proposed Rule, NHeLP addresses a number of issues to protect health care consumers and expand access to health care coverage in the Affordable Care Act Marketplaces, Medicaid, and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). These include standards for brokers, outreach activities by…

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  • NHeLP Statement on the Killing of Tyre Nichols

    Once again, in yet another U.S. city, a Black man did not survive a traffic stop. His name was Tyre Nichols.On January 7, 2023, Memphis, Tennessee police pulled over the 29-year-old father and avid skateboarder. Police officers subsequently tased, beat, and pepper-sprayed Mr. Nichols approximately 250 feet from his…

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  • Medi-Cal Delivery System Changes in 2023 and 2024

    Through the combination of the ongoing implementation of the California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal (CalAIM) program in California and California’s reprocurement of its contracts with commercial health care service plans to deliver services to people in Medi-Cal managed care, California is making major changes to the delivery of Medi-Cal…

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  • NHeLP Statement on Monterey Park Mass Shooting

    On January 22, 2023, more than 6 million Asian Americans across California woke up to the news of the Monterey Park mass shooting. The shooter killed ten people and injured ten others during a lunar new year event in a neighborhood that is predominantly Asian and has a rich…

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