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- November 7, 2019
Complaint: AA v. Gee, U.S. District Court of the Middle District of Louisiana
Read moreLouisiana is failing to meet its obligation to provide mental health services to Medicaid-eligible children and families in the state, forcing thousands to unnecessarily cycle in and out of hospitals and psychiatric facilities far away from their homes for extended periods of time, and forcing some to become inappropriately…
- October 22, 2019
Helping Families Obtain Durable Medical Equipment and Supplies Through The California Children’s Services (CCS) Program
Read moreThis advocates issue brief provides the framework for accessing Durable Medical Equipment and medical supplies through the California Children's Services (CCS) program, including: a program overview, existing guidance on how to access services in Whole Child Model and non-Whole Child Model counties, considerations when children have Medi-Cal and/or other…
- October 16, 2019
NHeLP comments on Indiana’s Serious Mental Illness/Serious Emotional Disturbance Section 1115 Waiver Request
Read moreIn comments to the Department of Health and Human Services, the National Health Law Program urges HHS to reject Indiana’s proposed request to waive the Institutions for Mental Diseases (IMD) exclusion. HHS, however, does not have authority to grant the request to waive the IMD exclusion because Indiana has not…
- June 4, 2019
Public Comments on Medicaid’s Institutions for Mental Diseases (IMD) Exclusion
Read moreAs part of Support for Patients and Communities Act of 2018 (Support Act), Congress requested MACPAC submit a report on IMDs, and include any recommendations for changes to the exclusion. Any proposed changes to the IMD exclusion should be made with the utmost caution, and without undermining the purpose…
- January 9, 2019
Schmitt v. Kaiser Found. Health Plan Wash.: Amicus Brief
Read moreIn Schmitt v. Kaiser Found. Health Plan Wash., several Washington residents experiencing hearing loss challenge the exclusion of hearing aids from their health plans’ covered benefits. The plaintiffs claim such coverage exclusions are unlawful discrimination. In an appeal pending before the 9th Circuit, the National Health Law Program (NHeLP) and…
- September 18, 2018
National Health Law Program: Comments on Sterilization Consent Form
Read moreEstablished in the 1970s, the Medicaid Consent for Sterilization policy was, and remains, a much-needed protection against coercive sterilization practices.The United States has an ugly history of forcibly sterilizing low-income people, and particularly targeting low-income women, women of color, immigrant women, and women with disabilities to advance eugenics principles.…
