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August 4, 2017
NHeLP Comments on ‘Healthy Texas Women’ Sec. 1115 Waiver Project
Jane Perkins Comments
In comments to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, NHeLP urges the department to reject Texas' so-called "Healthy Texas Women" Medicaid demonstration waiver. The comments submitted by NHeLP Legal Director Jane Perkins note that HHS has limited ability to waive provisions of Medicaid law. HHS "may only…
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August 2, 2017
Protect Medi-Cal Funding Series, Pregnant Women’s Health Care in California
Amy Chen Issue Brief
California's Medicaid program, Medi-Cal, is vital to the health of millions of pregnant women in the state, providing access to quality prenatal care and screenings, labor and delivery, and postpartum care, as well as comprehensive abortion care. Designed to address the unique health care needs of low-income women, Medi-Cal…
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July 24, 2017
Children of the Opioid Crisis
Andy DiAntonio Issue Brief
The opioid crisis has caused an influx of children in the foster care system, and proposals in Congress to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and drastically cut federal Medicaid funding threaten the care of the these children, "the hidden victims of the opioid crisis," writes Senior Attorney Jennifer Lav in…
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July 21, 2017
Protect Medi-Cal Funding, Substance and Use Disorders
Andy DiAntonio Issue Brief
California's Medicaid program, Medi-Cal, is vital to ensuring that "individuals with opioid use disorders (OUD) have access to to evidence-based, life-saving prevention and treatment services," NHeLP Staff Attorney Héctor Hernández-Delgado writes in the tenth Issue Brief of a 12-part "Protect Medi-Cal Funding," series. Hernández-Delgado details how the Senate bill…
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July 20, 2017
NHeLP Comments on Wisconsin’s Request to Amend its Sec. 1115 Waiver Project
Jane Perkins Comments
In comments to the U.S. Department of of Health and Human Services, NHeLP urges the department to reject Wisconsin's proposal to amend its Sec. 1115 "BadgerCare" demonstration project. The state's amended application process is flawed in process and substance. On substance NHeLP warns HHS that Wisconsin's request to condition…
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July 14, 2017
Protect Medi-Cal Funding, Access to Providers
Andy DiAntonio Issue Brief
Senate Republicans' effort to radically slash federal Medicaid funding would threaten the ability of California's Medicaid program, Medi-Cal, to ensure robust health care providers' participation in Medi-Cal writes Senior Attorney Abbi Coursolle in the ninth Issue Brief of a 12-part "Protect Medi-Cal Funding," series. "In trying to make up for…
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NHeLP Comments on ‘Healthy Texas Women’ Sec. 1115 Waiver Project

Protect Medi-Cal Funding Series, Pregnant Women’s Health Care in California

Children of the Opioid Crisis

Protect Medi-Cal Funding, Substance and Use Disorders

NHeLP Comments on Wisconsin’s Request to Amend its Sec. 1115 Waiver Project

Protect Medi-Cal Funding, Access to Providers