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February 22, 2018
NHeLP Comments Urge Senate to Safeguard Medicaid in Addressing Opioid Crisis
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The National Health Law Program in comments to the Senate Finance Committee urges lawmakers to support Medicaid and its funding structure in efforts to address the opioid epidemic, which "now kills more individuals than HIV/AIDs did at the height of that epidemic in the 1990s." The National Health Law…
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February 1, 2018
HHS Approves 1115 Waiver in Indiana – Harming Medicaid Enrollees
dfitzgerald Issue Brief
Earlier today, HHS approved a section 1115 waiver requested by Indiana. The approved project is effectively a cut that will worsen or eliminate access to Medicaid for low-income individuals. This proposal will have a significant, detrimental impact on low-income individuals, particularly women, seeking reproductive health care. This fact sheet…
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January 24, 2018
Stewart v. Hargan, Lawsuit Challenging Kentucky Medicaid Waiver Project
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Representing 15 Medicaid beneficiaries in Kentucky, the National Health Law Program (NHeLP), the Kentucky Equal Justice Center (KEJC), and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) sued the Trump administration today in federal court for its approval of a state Medicaid waiver project that will cause nearly 100,000 hard-working Kentuckians…
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January 12, 2018
HHS Approves 1115 Waiver in Kentucky – Harming Medicaid Enrollees Who Need Reproductive Health Services
dfitzgerald Issue Brief
Earlier today, HHS approved a section 1115 waiver requested by Kentucky. The approved project is effectively a cut that will worsen or eliminate access to Medicaid for low-income individuals. This proposal will have a significant, detrimental impact on low-income individuals, particularly women, seeking reproductive health care. This fact sheet…
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December 8, 2017
2018 Screening for Medicaid Eligibility under the Pickle Amendment
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With help from Gordon Bonnyman from the Tennessee Justice Center, NHeLP provides the updated 2018 - A Quick and Easy Method of Screening for Medicaid Eligibility under the Pickle Amendment - a screening tool and chart to determine if clients may be Medicaid eligible under the Pickle Amendment. The screening process…
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December 6, 2017
NHeLP Comments: HHS Rule on Religious Exemption from ACA Birth Control Provision
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The Trump administration's effort to weaken, if not destroy, the Affordable Care Act's landmark birth control provision, also includes a religious exemption for an array of employers, that as NHeLP explains in its comments to HHS opposing the exemption will "erect significant barriers to employees and their dependents to…
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NHeLP Comments Urge Senate to Safeguard Medicaid in Addressing Opioid Crisis

HHS Approves 1115 Waiver in Indiana – Harming Medicaid Enrollees

Stewart v. Hargan, Lawsuit Challenging Kentucky Medicaid Waiver Project

HHS Approves 1115 Waiver in Kentucky – Harming Medicaid Enrollees Who Need Reproductive Health Services

2018 Screening for Medicaid Eligibility under the Pickle Amendment

NHeLP Comments: HHS Rule on Religious Exemption from ACA Birth Control Provision