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  • Issue Brief: Health Coverage Options for Low-Income Pregnant Women in California

    NHeLP Senior Attorney Amy Chen examines California's public health insurance options available to women during pregnancies and for specified postpartum periods. Chen concludes that while public health insurance options in California provide "more generous income limits for pregnant women," significant "challenges remain for pregnant and postpartum women transitioning between…

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  • The Data Project

    NHeLP's Reproductive Health Data and Insurance Accountability Project (the Data Project) and the Women's Law Project on October 3 published a guide on abortion coverage for low-income women, and physicians in Pennsylvania. The guide details the extent of Medicaid coverage of abortion care in the state, administered by Pennsylvania…

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  • Health Advocate: States Expand Coverage of Contraception

    States are taking the initiative to bolster federal health care policy intended to provide comprehensive contraceptive coverage, Staff Attorney Agata Pelka writes in the September Health Advocate. Pelka states, "Access to quality, comprehensive health care is critical for women to be equal, participating, and productive members of society." While…

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  • Letters to Walgreens & SSM Health Medical Group

    In letters to Walgreens and Catholic-sponsored SSM Health Medical Group, NHeLP and the ACLU of Illinois, ACLU of Missouri and MergerWatch ask for assurances that in-store clinics in St. Louis and Illinois operated by SSM Health do not adhere to religious directives and override medical standard of care.

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  • Issue Brief 5: Medicaid Managed Care Final Regulations and Reproductive Health

    In this issue brief, NHeLP Staff Attorney Catherine McKee reviews the recently finalized Medicaid managed care regulations, and how they impact access to quality reproductive health services. She notes the new rules are "designed to increase access to reproductive health providers and services," but says state health care advocates…

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  • Fact Sheet: The ACA Contraceptive Coverage Rule

    The Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires most health insurance plans to provide coverage for a broad range of women's preventive health services without cost-sharing, including all Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved methods of contraception, related counseling, follow-up, side-effect management, and device insertion and removal at an in-network provider. This…

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